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[โ€“] 20nat@feddit.it 25 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Fedora is a product of an US company

[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's true but at least you can review the code and they don't collect data on you like microsoft does.

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[โ€“] confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can we hate on Windows because of what it is, not because itโ€™s a US company that actually claims(ed) to be an Irish company for tax reasons?

I may be wrong or outdated on the country affiliation, but an everything past windows (arguably XP) deserves hate on its own merit.

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[โ€“] gnygnygny@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] skitazd@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Which ones are european? I only know about linux mint and openSUSE

[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mandriva OS ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท and Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง are also European.

If you would like to learn more:

https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.ca/post/40569062

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[โ€“] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago

While I applaud the effort, the collage needs more NixOS.

[โ€“] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Aha! So there are the "non-tariff barriers" coming from the penguin island! This giving away an OS for free is so unfair to poor Microsoft and Apple.

[โ€“] crawancon@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

WOOO puppy /woof !

[โ€“] skitazd@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Not spoken about enough, every chart about european digital alternatives hasnt included windows/macOS -> Linux

[โ€“] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

didn't mandriva close down like 10 years ago

[โ€“] kronarbob@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Open Mandriva would have been better here.

[โ€“] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 with Ubuntu on it. IIRC, it's 18, and the specs don't support upgrading it anymore with Ubuntu. I was thinking of going to Mint, but I haven't really kept up with the various available Linux flavors, for the last few years. 2 of the 3 USBports have stopped working, but that's a $30 part replacement. The wifi see,s really slow as well, but I'm not sure whether that's a hardware or software issue.

[โ€“] RedSnt 3 points 1 week ago

It's not European, but antiX and by extension MX Linux (as @mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works also mention) are great for lower spec computers if you want something somewhat modern (Debian packages are a little crusty, but workable).

[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

The 'MATE' edition of Mint is basically Gnome 2 with a lick of paint. That'll be worth a try.

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