n2burns

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[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Eh, depends how much older. My daily is a Thinkpad x201, and while I love Linux Mint, every once in a while I get curious about other distros. However, as many times as I've tried, there's a bunch of distros whose LiveUSBs just won't boot (for example Pop! OS).

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"uninstall" isn't an option for apt. You might be thinking of "remove" but in OP's case "purge" probably makes more sense.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago

I don't have a source, but it wasn't that Netflix didn't lose subscribers, it was that their revenues grew. Part of that was charging subscribers more, but a lot of that was the new ad-supported plans netted them more money than basic ad-free plans. Which is probably why they're now sunsetting the basic ad-free plans.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you explain? As a Mint user with really old hardware, I appreciate using the LTS kernel. However, I also appreciate them giving users other options.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If you have new hardware, why wouldn't you use the Edge ISO?

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They have a fairly new version called Edge that ships with a newer kernel (currently 6.5).

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

They're discontinuing it in 2026.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

Which has been discontinued. They have said they'll bring back a EUV for the 2026 model year, but we'll see if that comes to fruition.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

I think it's more of a corollary that phone companies can incentivize people to buy more than they need. I live in Canada, where carrier locks have been outlawed for a decade, so we don't typically get $100s off the phone, but they do often give interest free financing. This pushes people to get a brand new, top-of-the-line Galaxy or iPhone, when all they do is simple stuff that any basic smartphone could do. They just get used to paying "only an extra $50/mo" so once that phone is paid off, they finance a brand new, top-of-the-line smartphone.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

What packages are broken? I haven't run into any.

P.S. I think Snaps are now the fuss, so I still think Mint is Ubuntu with the fuss.

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