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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    3 hours ago

    Why would “non-tech-savvy seniors” care what version of the Nvidia driver is installed?

    Maybe he still loves playing games? 🤷 And sometimes new GPUs and drivers can be a bit tricky and buggy !

    Debian being unusable due to old packages

    Yeah… Debian is probably the most stable distro I’ve ever used ! I even forget it’s installed on my server sometimes and that APT is the package manager xD