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you do you. But ubuntu is the windows of linux from the perspective of telemetry, propertiary software and such. Like if ur gonna switch to linux might aswell "fully" switch
It's for when you want to get your grandparents on Linux but don't want them to require your help every moment that they're using it.
mint
This is a flawed opinion. You can support a realistic approach of using proprietary software for usability's sake without approving of things like ad profiles. (I say that instead of telemetry because benign things like crash reporting or reporting which features you use are technically also "telemetry".)
Listen, I support foss as much as anyone here but there's a reason SSPL didn't get accepted as a foss license, and it's because it's impossible to have a fully 100% foss system. I'm not saying we shouldn't push for or advocate for that, just saying we shouldn't say someone isn't fully embracing Linux just because they need to use a few pieces of proprietary software to get a working system that supports their individual needs.
It's impossible to have a fully free system?
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
But more to your point, it's a false dichotomy. Even before the latest changes to the Debian install media, for years it was maybe unintuitive but still easy enough to just choose the "nonfree" install iso. That one would automatically include all the proprietary bits that are necessary for a fully functional Linux system.
But now those nonfree parts are in the Debian install by default, so there really is just nothing that you get from Ubuntu that can't just as easily work in Debian - especially since everyone is moving toward flatpaks, and appimages anyway.
Ubuntu has zero telemetry if you flick the switch they show you right after installation. And steam is proprietary software, yet basically every distro ships it in their repos. Your points make no sense.
it is opt out... Besides why use a distro where you are in cannonical's mercy when you can use anything else
And when Mint is right there too.
I have Ubuntu packages all through my system and I don’t need to care about whatever BS canonical is up to. Worst case scenario is I switch to LMDE one day.
mint is awesome
Every distro ships steam, really?
I'm sure it's not literally all of them, and it's almost never preinstalled. But available in the repositories.
I agree about that today, but it wasn't always so easy to install linux for noobs as it is now.
It may be easy to forget, but Ubuntu was doing "easy jnstall" better than moat linux distros for a long time. I bet there are a lot of non-programmer-linux-daily-driver folks out there that got started on ubuntu. I'm one of them.
And yet we still did it. From floppies.
Nice.
This is not true.