• voodooattack@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A walled garden doesn’t offer you the freedom to leave it. If you’re unhappy with Ubuntu, you can use a bajillion other distros and get the same software elsewhere. If you preserve your home directory and distro hop then nothing changes for you and your preferences/dot files carry over. I jumped between three distros at some point and my custom GNOME setup (extensions and all) survived through it with minor changes. Heck. Even Thunderbird kept my profile active and I never had to re-add all my email credentials from scratch.

    Can you do that with Windows or MacOS?

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      1 year ago

      Can you do that with Windows or MacOS?

      Yes, I can in fact download programs that aren’t on the Windows or Mac app stores. Are you even paying attention here?