anyways I realize now that the Intel Core 2 Duo is really, really old. I have no idea what to do with this thing, but yeah i can put Peppermint or something really lightweight on it, though putting in a $20 SSD from Aliexpress and a new battery should spiff it up a bit
It’s ironic that a paranoid schizo would pick the one Linux distro that’s been proven to spy on its users.
I think in 2018 when Terry was last using it telemetry was still opt-in in Ubuntu. Or do you mean a different kind of spying?
leaving this here, terry was an absolute legend.
It was 2015 or something, Canonical added a search bar that automatically sent all your queries to Amazon to harvest data for advertising.
Mint is good, as far as I know. I think it's a bit less pozzed than Debian proper, from principles. But I just use Debian because it's the base that everything derives from. And Debian Stable, Bookworm, is in a very good state right now.
Mint is perfectly fine and it is even my choice to recommend to fresh linux noobs. I'm pretty sure it is very against Ubuntu and its bullshittery, thus probably an opt-in if there is any telemetry. It was my distro of choice for awhile.
Anyone dumb enough to enable the shitty telemetry of KDE is usually dumb enough to use Wayland.
You can just do both, in case you accidentally missed it from a giant emerge list.
Probably because Plasma 6 is still a horrible mess, and the only people using it are Wayland troons for whom Plasma 5 isn't an option. Plus Plasma 6 makes it really fucking difficult to launch under X - when I tried it in February, it reset my preferences every time.
The thing is, when telemetry is optional, chances are it’s not invasive and that it’s being used innocuously. KDE’s voluntary telemetry for instance collects a list of hardware, library versions, and uname -a, and the purpose is simply making sure they’re not needlessly breaking something people use. On the other hand Microsoft’s mandatory telemetry is way more invasive, and it’s only collected so they can sell it to advertisers because Microsoft actively don’t test their releases anyway.
I have an old Core 2 Duo laptop running Void with XFCE. It's pretty usable.
Mint is both reliable and easy to install and use. There's not as big a learning curve if you're escaping Windows as there is with some distros.
I guarantee that 80% metric is a lie and the misleading data probably contributes to all of the Wayland white knighting. The amount of Soyland shills who swear by it and pretend like the "future" is already here, forcing their stupid beta test onto all new users like it won't have any negative consequences on the Linux ecosystem, disgusts me. I don't even hate that Wayland is an option, I just wish people would quit being little fairies about it and then getting defensive when you ask them to stop.
I could never get Void to work. I really liked it for a bit, but then every time I'd install a package it would corrupt the initramfs and brick the system. And since there is so little documentation, I couldn't fix it like I would be able to in minutes with Arch. Some weird issue specific to my hardware. I've changed out my whole motherboard twice since then so maybe I'll give it another try but I can't recommend it over Arch.
Do you even know what you want to run on the thing? Mobile C2Ds aren't actually that weak, it only takes like 12 hours to set up a minimal Gentoo install with 2GB of RAM
