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[โ€“] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Mint is also european (based on Ireland), even though it's based on Ubuntu and Debian, ~~both of which are American (but Debian is FOSS)~~

Edit: Ubuntu is based on London and was founded by South Africans, but has propietary snaps (disabled on Mint). Debian was founded by an American but is FOSS so it operates worldwide.

[โ€“] tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

All FOSS operates worldwide; the point of FOSS is that it provides a paradigm that directly counters the false-scarcity that (often capitalist) systems induce.

(not directed at you, of course)

[โ€“] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

And Mint has heavily invested in a version that goes to Debian skipping Ubuntu, I think it should have reached stable status by now.

[โ€“] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The word yes

The company no, it's British or something