I think that a Marxist society should allow for 0 proprietary software, and instead support for everything in free and open source decentralized technology.

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    I’m hearing lots of support for mint. Does it get updated still? I remember looking into one distro and then learned that it was no longer being maintained – one of the reasons why I didn’t look back into it till now.

    My tech knowledge is fair, I’d say. I’m not too scared of breaking things, using terminal commands, or looking through the settings. It’s just that I’ve not needed to do much for a long time other than open word and a browser.

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      1 year ago

      Mint is very much still being maintanied. And it’s a great distro, especially for beginners. You get the benefits of Debian (one of the oldest still maintained, very used, many programs are packaged for it), Ubuntu (one of the most used on the desktop/laptop, large company behind it, most (proprietary) software is written with it in mind), with great tools out of the box for a lot of stuff that makes it more beginner friendly and actually somewhat better on the desktop.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, so some distros, like Ubuntu, are big enough that software companies, like Adobe but not necessarily Adobe, make compatible software? Any chance this includes Word, or is LibreOffice the go to word processor for Linux?

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          I think Mint has LibreOffice included already.

          If not, you have the Software Center app on Ubuntu and Mint. It’s like the Windows Microsoft Store: a GUI to browse for installable software.

          3rd option is to install it from the command line

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          1 year ago

          No, it’s just than when/if some company makes software for “Linux”, some of the time Ubuntu is actually the only one they support.

          Last I checked, still no Word (except in the browser), so LibreOffice is still the go to.

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            1 year ago

            Ah, that’s clearer, thanks.

            Well, detest word so I’ll be glad to use something else.