Curious: how do we know that these download counts aren't inaccurate from, like, a few bots repeatedly downloading to mess with the stats?
Dymonika
joined 2 years ago
Anyone who wants to try Linux but is scared of or reluctant about anything about the process at all: talk to me! There are multiple ways to try it with zero change to your system, like Oracle VirtualBox or a USB flash drive.
Okay, great, thanks. I just hope that Canonical doesn't do something like forcibly interweave a proprietary blob with a critical updated.
Thanks, I didn't know that. But then my question is: how dependent is the Mint team on Canonical's updates to Ubuntu? Is it like Waterfox vs. Firefox?
I was just reading through /r/NobaraProject myself, haha! I may try to stick with Mint Cinnamon for now, though, since I've already got it installed...
Pop!_OS was personally a terrible experience for me, even when not on NVIDIA. It seemed great until I actually tried it lol, but I'd recommend almost literally anything else.
Unfortunately, I just read a whole bunch of comments in another post about how Canonical trends so anti-consumer (to Microsoft-like levels) that multiple people are advocating against Mint and even Ubuntu entirely, so now my pickle is rescuing the relatives I just rescued from Windows and OS X from Mint, which they've been getting settled in lol. Ugh.
Are they trying to fake their own numbers, or maybe one Linux fanatic who is falsely skewing representation?