Originally this was a reply to this article about a Windows feature called Recall, but there’s a good argument the author’s concerns resonate far beyond Windows and Meta to proprietary generally.

  • @Una@europe.pub
    27•15 days ago

    According to Distrowatch mint and Zorin are from Ireland, opensuse and manjaro are from Germany and more was lazy for more searching

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        6•15 days ago

        Suddenly Ubuntu doesn’t seem so terrible now, does it??

        Ubuntu gang represent.

        • albert180English
          16•15 days ago

          Well, their “customisation” of Gnome with that ugly bar on the left side is still ugly as hell.

          And GCHQ isn’t also really trustworthy, with them being part of 5 Eyes

          • Snot FlickermanEnglish
            6•15 days ago

            That’s part of why I use Xubuntu/Kubuntu mainly and Lubuntu for real low end stuff. Straight vanilla Ubuntu is… not super appealing. Ubuntu server that’s just CLI/headless though, that’s pretty tits, imho.

            • @Godort@lemm.ee
              4•15 days ago

              Ubuntu server is okay, but I’ve come to really appreciate a minimal, stable Debian install instead.

            • albert180English
              3•15 days ago

              I think I will go for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. But Kubuntu is also nice to keep in mind

          • @Loucypher@lemmy.ml
            1•15 days ago

            That is just a customized version of Dash to Dock. You can move the dock on the bottom if you want or make it auto hide. The same functionality you can expect from Dash to dock but with the Ubuntu theme applied

            • albert180Deutsch
              2•15 days ago

              I don’t want it at all.
              But thanks for the Head Up that you can make this ugly thing go away

          • Snot FlickermanEnglish
            0•15 days ago

            I agree that the backend for snaps being proprietary sucks, but I actually think snaps themselves are pretty useful in server configurations because of the sandboxing and limiting access to system resources. I get the whole argument that it’s doing what flatpak already did yadda yadda, but like… competing standards happens. It’s part of life and always will be.