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Easiest way to change distros after having settled comfortably into one? (lemmy.one)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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I just read an alarming number of comments on a distro-inquisitive post about how evil Canonical has been. I had no idea that Canonical wants to put ads on the desktop; I saw literally no sign of even the name anywhere at all, but reading this and seeing people say that Ubuntu shouldn't even be an option any more has got me concerned about Canonical going Microsoft-like in telemetry.

Unfortunately, I just installed Mint Cinnamon in the weeks prior on the computers of some very non-tech-savvy seniors before reading these. If all/any of this is true, how do I move people who are already settling their personal info into their current build of Linux Mint? Someone said that LMDE is behind in various ways, including NVIDIA graphics drivers, so that's not preferred, either. I'm interested in atomic/immutable Fedora Kinoite for myself, at least.

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[–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Oh, okay; I didn't know how interrelated the Mint devs are with anyone at Canonical. It sounds like they're totally independent, which is great! It was just a bit of a shock to see people here say "Stop using Ubuntu" entirely, though, since it's such a household name in the world of Linux that it sort of upended my entire perspective for a bit.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

    Don't take what Linux users say as gospel. There's a wide variety of opinions that - yes - generally have some basis in truth, but usually it comes down to personal preference. Just because a vocal minority hates on systemd doesn't mean you now have to switch to Devuan. FOSS is full of opinionated and passionate people, but you should always use what works for you. Don't let others dictate how you use your computer and what code you run. Free as in freedom.

    Now, having said all that, Canonical is suspect, don't use Ubuntu. Mint is fine.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Right, what I mean is that:

    Canonical is suspect, don't use Ubuntu. Mint is fine.

    I didn't realize this distinction was so massive given how Mint is built on Ubuntu, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    A software fork doesn't automatically say that things are being added on top. It's less so an add-on and more so a mod, and Ubuntu being OSS means the Mint devs could just dig in and pull out whatever nasty things people don't like. Snaps are a good example: sudo apt install firefox on Ubuntu started installing the Firefox Snap somewhere before 2022 (I don't recall exactly), but Linux Mint has never had Snap support by default, and has been installing the Debian package of Firefox (Like Ubuntu used to) for a long time, and will probably continue to do so

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting, thanks... What makes Snaps bad, though?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Sorry for the late response

    They have their use cases, but personally I don't like the hard sandbox they have (makes theming impossible) and they take up a lot of disk space, which I already seem to be constantly running out of without Snaps already so it's a big no from me

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