In my opinion, it is unfair to judge a distribution by it's origin country. Because it's an international effort regardless.
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Linux Mint is honestly amazing. I always read about it being labeled as "for beginners" or being "boring" almost as if that's a bad thing. I just wanted something that works out of the box and not take on a new hobby.. And I got just that with Linux Mint. Highly recommended
Good to know! Being a Canadian, I'm pretty determined to transfer over to linux before Microsoft stops supporting windows 10 but have been pretty intimidated by various horror stories etc.
Canadian person! If you break it, ask me and I will do my best to non-snarkily assist. I am working on becoming less snarky, so it's practice!
Thanks for this post. Here's my contribution:
Search results for Lemmy communities for these distros:
- Linux Mint
- Ubuntu
- EndeavourOS - no results at time of this post
- OpenSUSE
- NixOS
- Arch
- Void
- Debian
Others mentioned in the comments (I can't vouch for their "Europeanness"):
- Arcolinux (Belgium?) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
- CachyOS (Germany?) - home - lemmy search
- Mageia (France?) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
- Manjaro - home - lemmy search
- OpenMandriva (France?) - home - lemmy search
- PearOS (Romania?) - home "adblock detected" k bye - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
- VanillaOS (Italian-led I believe) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
- Zorin (Ireland) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
Others (I can't vouch for their "Europeanness"):
- Antix (Greece?) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
- MX Linux (Greece?) - home - lemmy search
- Q4OS (Czech Republic) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
- Slax (Czech Republic) - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
- Solus (Ireland?) - home - lemmy search
At this point I remembered Distrowatch and realized you can search by country of origin. E.g. Distrowatch search for active distros from Austria. And Italy.
Too many European countries and too many distros for me to do them all. If anyone else wants to chip in, e.g. pick a country, feel free.
And if one neighbouring country (Canada) being threatened by that f$#king guy can get an honorary mention here, let's include another, too: Mexico.
- Nitrux - home - lemmy search - no results at time of this post.
Mexicans also started the GNOME desktop environment, but I don't think the upcoming GNOME OS is based in Mexico.
Whaaat linux mint my beloved is Irish! Awesome!
What about Zorin? I think it is one of the best to Show Windows users a Linux experience.
I'm currently wondering whether this is going in the right direction. I understand that we are boycotting commercial products from the US, which makes perfect sense to me. But as someone who works on FOSS software myself, I wonder if we are hurting the right people by not using FOSS software that comes from the US. I think these are largely people who don't support Trump.
I completely agree. I think FOSS software is way harder to control by a corporation (especially licensed copyleft) Personally i don't think it's harmful to use OSS software from any country at all. Whether by chinese, belgian or american as long as it is open source, it's fair game i think.
I shared this post since i thought this community might enjoy it, but all distros are fine.