Most distros let you either opt-in or opt-out of it though. It’s really not as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Besides, the “general” population switching to Linux doesn’t really care about anonymized telemetry.
Discouraging people to not use a certain distro due to its optional and anonymized telemetry, is foolish.
It is indeed a good distro and one of the main distros that brings innovation to the Linux world. If it works for you, then keep using it.
sending user keystrokes to Amazon
That’s a very serious allegation to make without citing any source.
Still collects some user data
Someone has already pointed out, no data is collected unless the user opts in. But, my question is what’s wrong with collecting anonyomized telemetry about most used hardware and most used/unused software features? It helps developers make better decisions.
Because it’s a shit company which seems to employ more lawyers than devs. Their lawyers routinely go after emulators, which hurts game preservation. They also go after fan projects a lot, which hurts the community.
Looks like a user issue to me.
https://quarto.org is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system. You write markdown text and it converts it to HTML website, PDF article/book, word document and many other formats.
“Using LaTeX” and “programing with LaTeX” are very different things. For most people, LaTeX is a means to an end, for you LaTeX is your whole job. You’re the exception, and exception can not be an example.
I’m still waiting for Quarto and the R ecosystem to better support Typst.
Latexmk has built-in option to watch a Tex file and recompile upon changes.
Mint with Papirus icons and blue accent colour set to match the folder icons of Papirus theme.
It got better, that’s what happened. You’re using Firefox ESR, it’s not unsafe.
Mozilla also provides a Deb repo for Debian and its derivatives: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions
I recommend looking for refurbished laptops. As they’d give you better bang for buck. If you do indeed to with refurbished laptop, check everything thoroughly before buying including how long the battery lasts and if the display has any deffects.
People drive in different sides in different parts of the world.
Forget left-right. Use port and starboard.
Mint. LMDE.
Nah, m8, desktop and ChromeOS, these two words don’t go in the same sentence together
If you have to dig that deep, then it’s probably not worth it digging (for me at least).