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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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (37 children)

Shit I was just about to install PopOs! Which is developed by a US company. It's maddening trying to find the right distro that fits all the requirements.

Edit: Opting for Mint.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (14 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

SUSE is now garbage. Not sure about open suse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

When SLES 12 came out they made everything harder and forced everyone to migrate to 64 bit, even if you were doing legacy development

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