It worked with Live distros Fedora & EndeavourOS, so it must be something with
Mageia doing special favour to a known culprit on GNU versus Linux battlefield.
Thanks for your few words of solace...
They really help when on your blog, you wait few years and somebody comments on
a article.
Then
I have always stayed away from Debian for some unknown reason...
First it was pestering Atul Chitnis with my ignorance then joining PLUG.
Fights & battles while PLUG was taking shape
Then Mandrake ~ Mandriva ~ Mageia
In between once or twice Manjaro , CentOS, Bodhi, and various Linux
distribut