Comment Re:I see (Score 2) 646
The problem is, you do not get the same results.
Mint also makes it difficult for you to change their Google search, restoring the config to the default after reboot.
When I discovered this fact, I actually went and tried out several other distros. Sigh
When I type something like '1.2 * 123 Usd in Eur' into a vanilla Google, I get the numerical result. When I type those into the search box in firefox at Mint Linux, I do not get numerical result. There are many more examples.
Fortunately, it is trivial to *add* (not change the one installed by Mint
For a time I tried to switch to the search engine provided by Mint for searches that I knew would provide very similar result, but I do not do that anymore. Sorry Clem. No revenue from my hijacked search queries.
In later versions Clem made pact with duckduckgo search engine and made that default. I tried to use duckduckgo as well, but, somehow, I gravitated back to using Google.com.
At the moment I use Mint Linux Maya KDE as my main home desktop.