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Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them (www.neowin.net)
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The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.

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[–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do more people use Mint than Ubuntu these days? I've been on Arch for a decade now so I don't know the popularity of distros as well as I used to.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I don't know but it seems that Mint is pretty popular: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

    Anyway, Mint is the closest to Windows 3.1/98/2000 by its simplicity. It shows windows, you can move your files and run applications, it's all I need.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Arch at around #15 btw. I would have expected it to be a little bit more popular than some of the other ones on this list but I guess I don't know what the metric is based on here. Downloads?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    Yeah Mint is pretty good for a "starter" Linux OS. This is subjective, but of all the Desktop OSs, I found myself fixing shit in terminal and nailing down obscure issues a lot less often in Mint than other distros. Also, whenever a friend/family member came to me with a very old and "broken" laptop that needed saving that's what I'd throw on there. Modern Windows is way too much for the 4GB RAM dual core or whatever bullshit on those old machines. The only complaints I ever got out of them were that they couldn't run .exes and had to use LibreOffice instead of desktop Office apps, but that's about it. No crashes outside of legitimate equipment failure.

    I ran it on my personal machines before I got more comfortable. Now my ideal setup is KDE/Debian though playing around with cachyOS in VMs has been pretty fun.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I switched from popos to manjaro and later mainline arch about a year ago for the AUR. It’s a lot more streamlined then all the terminal stuff needed to install third party software on Ubuntu

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