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    [–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Mint is Ubuntu-based so yeah, most stuff will work.

    But also: The only reason I don't recommend Ubuntu is because of Snaps and telemetry. If someone decides that they don't mind, I don't care. Everyone should just use the distro they like best

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I'm new to linux.. what is snaps and telemetry..?

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Snaps are a more powerful flatpack

    Like an .exe on Windows

    They are able to do system components

    People don’t like them because the server that serves snap is closed source. Since Snaps themselves are open source they could be changed to not use Canonical but then it would be a fork

    Telemetry is sending data to the company that makes the OS, normally in Linux this is opt-in but on Ubuntu it is opt-out

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    thanks so much! 😊

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