Remember back when Ubuntu put ads in the dash? I do (~2014) - eviltoast
  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    3 months ago

    This may be kind of a dumb question, but would it affect Mint in any way if Canonical were to reintroduce ads? I know Mint’s a fork but I’m not sure how integrated that part of the OS is.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      3 months ago

      Probably not as the Mint Team would either not be affected or they would have a cow.

      When snap came out the Mint team got pissed and started maintaining the packages removed from Ubuntu

    • muhyb@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      3 months ago

      It wouldn’t be worse than snap integration which Mint already doesn’t use. Also Mint have a backup plan called LMDE if things go sour.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        3 months ago

        I always got this feeling that LMDE will eventually become Mint’s main distro, with the Ubuntu-based version slowly fading away.