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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by legulere on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:52PM (#18470454)
The Elementary linux desktop [1] tries to get its users to pay.

[1]: https://elementary.io

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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by zanny on Friday November 16, 2018 @01:32PM (#18470800)
So does Canonical when you download Ubuntu.

That being said, you really want money to go to developers making the software. Not to discredit the work of packagers and integrators (mostly at Debian) but actually writing the code at the end of the day is the deal breaker.

For that you can donate to Gnome, KDE, specific projects like Krita, or Software in the Public Interest that funds a bunch of the non-umbrella projects like LibreOffice and Postgres.

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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by russdpale on Friday November 16, 2018 @01:27PM (#18470748)
Elementary is a great project. I am about to build a box for a single mother with two kids and I am thinking about using elementary for it because of its ease of use and similarity to mac.
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