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by taw9 5011 days ago
Gawd. Unity, and now this garbage. Should be interesting to see how Mint does...
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kintamanimatt 5011 days ago
Mint user here.

Mint used to set Firefox's default search engine a customized (read: craptastic) version of Google that's designed to rake in the ad revenue. I wouldn't have a problem with it if it wasn't utterly useless and ugly as sin. (It looked like the Google site search for webmasters.)

Now the default search engine is DuckDuckGo. I have no idea if they have a revshare agreement with them.

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lurker14 5011 days ago
Customized how? I have never seen a customized Google search results page.

Are you referring to the default home page?

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taw9 5007 days ago
I hear you: it sucked. But no matter how much a default setting might suck, it is still a "setting", as in, it can be changed. Unity got Canonical started down a very slippery slope. I can't imagine they're dog-fooding this crap.
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andreasvc 5011 days ago
Or use Lubuntu.
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taw9 5007 days ago
Yeah, Lubuntu looks promising. I'm very happy with Mint's Debian edition, but I'll have to set up a box with Lub.

Ubuntu server is still excellent.

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