Yes the Mint trial version is free for 3 months, then you have to create a Linux account and signup on their website to purchase activation key for the full upgrade to unlock changing themes and recieving updates unless you’re okay with occasional popup reminders every 2-minutes that your Linux copy has not been activated.
/s lol
I hear you can extend the free trial by telling random people you use Arch. Just what I’ve heard. Linux Mint started the same program from what I gather.
I know this is a joke. I know that. But I keep thinking of switching to Mint, and now there’s going to be a part of my brain saying: “wait, there was some reason not to do that… I don’t remember what, but it sounded pretty bad…”
Went with Mint. Seemed user friendly for someone new and is great so far.
Yes the Mint trial version is free for 3 months, then you have to create a Linux account and signup on their website to purchase activation key for the full upgrade to unlock changing themes and recieving updates unless you’re okay with occasional popup reminders every 2-minutes that your Linux copy has not been activated. /s lol
Holy fuck. I am someone with Win 10 and was thinking about trying Linux Mint and then your post made me say WTF, should I investigate something else?
I’m glad the /s was added because it seemed wrong, but then I was second guessing. Absolutely hilarious though! Got me to laugh after.
There’s a package called
activate-linuxthat puts the activation warning overlay on the screen in case you ever feel homesick.…and there’s Ubuntu advertising its pro subscription in the terminal.
Just so you know, the Arch free trial is 6 months
I hear you can extend the free trial by telling random people you use Arch. Just what I’ve heard. Linux Mint started the same program from what I gather.
That explains sooooooooooooooooo much
Had me in the first half…
I know this is a joke. I know that. But I keep thinking of switching to Mint, and now there’s going to be a part of my brain saying: “wait, there was some reason not to do that… I don’t remember what, but it sounded pretty bad…”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I laughed way too hard at this ☠️
Yeah I started with mint a few years back, expecting to distro-hop… I’m still on mint.
Now set up a virtual machine and install Arch on it.
If you want to really learn Linux, that is. After that, you might just settle for pure Debian.