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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by Thaxll on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:52AM (#16931818)
Mint the distro with shity security model right? You better stay with Ubuntu / Debian they know what they're doing on that side.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by TekMol on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:57AM (#16931867)
Well, I told you why I don't use Ubuntu.

Debian... The initial reason I switched from Debian to Ubuntu was that Ubuntu included non-free drivers out of the box.

Up to Debian 8, I tried it on the desktop on every major release. And every time my wifi did not work out of the box. So I would have to get a cable to finish the installation or make some extra medium with the non-free drivers. And then I'm "Nahh... I'll stick with a distro that has the non-free drivers included right away".

I have not tried Debian 9 yet.

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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by DataWorker on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:57AM (#16931863)
What was wrong with mint exactly?
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by Thaxll on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:31AM (#16932173)
See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/60ddd4/comments_on_l...
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by facorreia on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:23AM (#16932115)
Their website was hacked once...

I'm a happy Linux Mint user. I've used every major OS in the last 30 years, and that's the one I like the most. There will be a new release soon based on Ubuntu 18.04.

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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by jcastro on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:02AM (#16932485)
They turn off kernel security updates by default.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by nmbr213 on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:13AM (#16932030)
This, I guess

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/linux...

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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:58AM (#16932436)
Their forum got hacked, it had absolutely nothing to do with the security of their OS.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by pritambaral on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:30AM (#16932767)
Didn't their iso-server also get hacked?
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