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Why is Deepin the only distro worthy of a "Friendly Link" on the Ventoy home page? Are they a sponsor of the project? Code contributor? Preferred demo platform?

Why is Deepin the only distro worthy of a "Friendly Link" on the Ventoy home page? Are they a sponsor of the project? Code contributor? Preferred demo platform? https://web.archive.org/web/20240614040917/https://ventoy.net/en/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240614040917/https://ventoy.ne... Ventoy developer longpanda offers tools for injection into Linux and Windows ISOs, which work with the Ventoy injection plugin, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691857 > Deepin is a distribution developed in Wuhan, China by Deepin Technology. Its homepage proclaims it "the top Linux distribution from China" ... The extensive EULA is uncommon for the Linux space, and the privacy policy goes into some detail about the types of information they collect – not just browser history, but information on when you use your computer and the applications installed on your system.

zamadatix 2y ago
What underlying result are you hoping the long term fixation on asking this question going to resolve? The developer is Chinese and probably doesn't care what someone else's preferred distro is or maybe they are associated with it - what difference does it make to why it's on the site and why not just ask them directly about it instead? If you mean to just highlight the association with Deepin it doesn't need to be guised as a question.
Fnoord 2y ago
If you look at https://github.com/ventoy https://github.com/ventoy then longpanda is ventoy and they're very likely from China: > It would be much appreciated if you want to make a small donation to support my work! > Alipay, WeChat Pay, PayPal and Bitcoin are available for donation. You can choose any of them.
- transpute 2y ago
  Ventoy's developer also created commercial software called iVentoy, https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/11/iventoy-network-boot-of-iso-files-made-easy/ https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/11/iventoy-network-...

zamadatix 2y ago

What underlying result are you hoping the long term fixation on asking this question going to resolve? The developer is Chinese and probably doesn't care what someone else's preferred distro is or maybe they are associated with it - what difference does it make to why it's on the site and why not just ask them directly about it instead? If you mean to just highlight the association with Deepin it doesn't need to be guised as a question.

Fnoord 2y ago

If you look at https://github.com/ventoy https://github.com/ventoy then longpanda is ventoy and they're very likely from China: > It would be much appreciated if you want to make a small donation to support my work! > Alipay, WeChat Pay, PayPal and Bitcoin are available for donation. You can choose any of them.

transpute 2y ago
Ventoy's developer also created commercial software called iVentoy, https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/11/iventoy-network-boot-of-iso-files-made-easy/ https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/11/iventoy-network-...