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A little while back I was doing an install and this happened in Mint and another Ubuntu based distro. I found out when installing OS's arch based installs have to be done after since my Manjaro grub I can choose any distro to boot from but if I install Mint and the other one "the name escapes me" only boots the OS the grub is for but if I install Arch based one I can boot to any of my OS's. I'm not sure if it's the installer of the OS or someone put a rigged version of grub in the repository so people can only use a Ubuntu based system. I sound paranoid but after all the shit Windows does and I find Ubuntu as a whole seems more like MS than Linux in some ways like that privacy concern when Conical added an amazon search to the system. I'm sure the owners aka Conical are not privacy or Linux freedom based in their thinking and would sellout Linux in a heartbeat if the cash was enough and I think the grub thing is to lock in a user base for the ones that are new and cannot figure out or have enough room for another distro on their system. I knew this a while back but just remembered it now so I posted it.

A little while back I was doing an install and this happened in Mint and another Ubuntu based distro. I found out when installing OS's arch based installs have to be done after since my Manjaro grub I can choose any distro to boot from but if I install Mint and the other one "the name escapes me" only boots the OS the grub is for but if I install Arch based one I can boot to any of my OS's. I'm not sure if it's the installer of the OS or someone put a rigged version of grub in the repository so people can only use a Ubuntu based system. I sound paranoid but after all the shit Windows does and I find Ubuntu as a whole seems more like MS than Linux in some ways like that privacy concern when Conical added an amazon search to the system. I'm sure the owners aka Conical are not privacy or Linux freedom based in their thinking and would sellout Linux in a heartbeat if the cash was enough and I think the grub thing is to lock in a user base for the ones that are new and cannot figure out or have enough room for another distro on their system. I knew this a while back but just remembered it now so I posted it.

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It might not be deliberate, Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro and the like often suffer when it comes to "little details". Mint is actually better at fixing things like that.