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Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

the best thing i did was spend last month deleting the partitions in my desktop and laptop and installing mint.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’ve been on Arch for a little while now, and Kubuntu before that. After Valve launched Proton on Steam, I found myself almost never booting into Windows. Once I ran out of disk space, it was an easy decision to completely purge Windows from my machine. Haven’t looked back in years.

    Fuck Microsoft for trying to control my computer. Finally nice not having it reinstall Candy Crush after every update. And none of that copilot or online account bullshit.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That’s such a nice thing about Linux and FOSS in general. The issues you run into are different than what you may be used to with Windows, but at least the system and its developers aren’t working against you.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Mint is the best flavor of linux. I recommend it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I tried a variety of distros when I made the switch 9 or 10 years ago, Mint is by far my favorite. I've been running it continuously for at least the last 8 years.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm actually allergic to mint. Can anyone suggest a version of Linux that doesn't have any mint in it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Heck yeah. Once in installed Mint on my PC at home, it was only a matter of weeks before I double checked my backed up files and nuked my windows partition.

    I still have the windows partition at work that I never use, and I have heard some bad stories about machines getting wiped when IT upgrades people to win11, so it might just have a little accident in its sleep.

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