LinuxHint (LinuxHint.com) is Not About Linux Anymore
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-07-17 18:57:55 UTC
- Modified: 2022-07-17 18:57:55 UTC
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From today's feed (an hour ago):
![LinuxHint sellout](http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/linuxhint-sellout.png)
Welcome to LinuxHint.com, the site where you can become a "partner" and decide on what LinuxHint.com covers, e.g. proprietary Discord, Razer, Microsoft Minecraft. You can even advertise Microsoft Windows (it happened).
![LinuxHint keyboard: Linux? Really?](http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/linuxhint-keyboard.png)
This was in the RSS feeds moments ago. It barely works with Linux, but it has nothing to do with Linux. It's about the affiliate links.
![LinuxHint spam: Linux? Really? Amazon link, Windows-only, $4000](http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/linuxhint-spam.png)
Nice of them to promote overpriced hardware. If only it was an option not to have Windows on it...
![Windows laptop](http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/windows-laptop.png)
So a "Linux" site is basically a peripheral Amazon catalogue for Windows products... (this happens a lot these days)
Summary: The above spam has become routine in LinuxHint.com and there's also habitual Windows/Microsoft "content", which has nothing to do with GNU/Linux and is even worse than the promotion of proprietary things; the site's editors are clearly exploring another direction because nowadays about half of the new "content" is programming (including Microsoft stuff), at least a quarter is webspam (affiliate links) and not much covers "Linux", which the site is named after