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It feels faster and it seems to use up less storage.

It feels like I no longer have to play tug of war with microsoft with owning my own device.

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It could be, but I haven't used it in at least a decade, so I can't say. Agree though - it's good to be plugged right into the support channels for a distro. I do remember that Mint always put a huge focus on being sure that noobies knew where to get help, and were aware of how things "worked" as much as they needed to be. I hope/assume this ethos has continued.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah I remember asking this sort of meandering question about how Firefox was only showing blank pages, and someone shot back with "update your system clock" and it worked!??? 🤯 After that, I was like, guys magic is real because I just met a wizard