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Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to be an avid Linux user a couple of years back -- but had to move to macos due to work. I however soon have the freedom to move back soon. Just out of cursiosity, do you know why people are recommending Mint over Ubuntu now?

I have no horse in the race, i'm just curious what changed as when i used Linux last time you would be recommended Ubuntu 95% of the time.

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

    Ubuntu is run by Canonical and people have mixed opinions about them. It mostly stems from their insistence on using snaps to run apps when other versions are supposedly faster (flatpack).

    I think that's the biggest issue otherwise Ubuntu is fine and I use it on all my VMs.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Mint is Ubuntu with the icky proprietary Canonical stuff removed and with an extra layer of polish.

    Mint Cinnamon even has a windows-like desktop/taskbar-like setup out of the box. I don’t know of any reason I might recommend somebody replace windows with Ubuntu rather than Mint.

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