• zarathustrad@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Why don’t they just install Mint, Zorin, or even xUbuntu (XFCE versions of each)…

    That’s 3 examples with actual support and a user base >3 edgelord cat bois.

    • morto@piefed.social
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      18 hours ago

      I ask myself the same question. I have no idea. Mine is from vaio and came with some sort of modded debian that looked like a stripped down win xp with custom repos that didn’t even load properly.

      • mrbutterscotch@feddit.org
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        3 hours ago

        You’d think that installing a niche distro like that is more difficult than one of the big ‘plug and play’ ones. Meaning they actively put more work into it, how strange.

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      1 day ago

      Most distro maintainers would expect something for commercial licences. Can’t have them take all your hard earned money! Max I can do is 0$.

      • VAK@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        They’re usually gpl licensed. You can do whatever you want with it (including selling it for a bazillion monies) as long as you give the code too.