• Tenderizer@aussie.zone
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    3 days ago

    You think choosing your Linux distro is bad, imagine having to choose your electricity, water, internet, phone, banking, and insurance provider as well as your local councillor, workplace, school, career, entertainment, childcare, car, house, food, etc.

    This “love choice, hate choosing” is a really valuable thing to understand.

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      2 days ago

      That’s why much more effort should be used to promote, towards the regular masses, Linux distros such as Linux Mint and Zorin that are built to purposely accommodate Windows(and Mac)-refugees into guiding them into the wider Linux ecosystem.

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        2 days ago

        Problem is that Mint and Zorin don’t take security as seriously as they should, and so I’m worried about the risks that would pose.

        Plus Zorin is a bit problematic for other reasons.

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            24 hours ago

            They charge money for a free OS, but they don’t use that money to provide more than installation support. They don’t offer troubleshooting support or upstream improvements.