• atl0pye@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Nearly a million in less than 3 months for a distro I’ve never heard of before? Cap.

    It looks pretty dogshit to me, and the pricing model tries to mimic windows. “but is donation!!” even if it’s a “donation” the titles are misleading because of their correlations.

    It’s a manipulative tactic to try to convince your users otherwise. I found another case of this “donation” thing from the administrators of a community trying to deceive their users.

    If you don’t stop this snake behaviour I will luigi the fuck out of you. Don’t touch linux with your dirty hands you scum.

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      9 hours ago

      Where have you been? Lol. Its been quite popular in Linux discussions I have seen around the COVID era. Started in 2009/2010 Used to have a suggested fee and you’d just type how much you wanted to pay, even $0. Looks like they now specifically set it into separate downloads , free for core version and money for preinstalled apps.

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      8 hours ago

      Zorin’s been around for years. I’ve only ever used the free version. It’s okay, but I think Mint is a better transition between Windows and Linux.

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        I’ve been using Nobara as my first distro for the past couple months. It’s been braindead easy and I haven’t had any issues aside from Steam Remote play refusing to work.

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        12 hours ago

        ive used it for years but yeah seems like with 18 they are trying to leverage windows 11 popularity to increase users.