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Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software (switching.software)

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A great resource that makes it quick and easy to find alternatives to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe and many more.

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[–] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Does this affect stuff like linux mint since its based on ubuntu?

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[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Linux mint has an edition based on Debian, LMDE:
https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, but that does not help because Mint jails all their docs in Cloudflare.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

I didn't know about that, thanks for telling.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Distributions based on Ubuntu like Linux Mint take pro-active steps to prevent their users from being affected by Canonical's decisions (the company that controls Ubuntu). So as long as they detect all malicious implementations from Canonical, you are safe. But I personally prefer a purely community based distribution like Fedora in which things like that won't happen in the first place. In contrast to Fedora, Ubuntu is under control of Canonical, a private company, which apparently plays a too significant role in strategic decisions that go against its users, and you never know if the Linux Mint team can respond to everything that Canonical is doing. Currently, Mint is removing Ubuntu's online search integration, privacy violations, and replace some of Ubuntu's Snap packages as they oppose Ubuntu's decision and centralized control that comes with Snap packages. As I said above, for me it feels more right though to have a distribution that doesn't need to work around questionable implementations of its parent distribution.