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    [–] ptz@dubvee.org 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Yeah, I don't get the hate and intentional division being sowed there.

    I'm not a fan of Ubuntu since they went all Thanos Snap (the final straw was replacing deb packages in apt with snap stubs), but I can applaud that they're using Linux.

    Just seems like low effort, pointless gatekeeping to me.

    [–] Kroxx@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Yeah I never understood the hate but today I did read a comment saying Canonical (the company that develops Ubuntu) had injected some amazon telemetry into one of the search functionalities, that and using Snap is what makes some people shit on it. I didn't verify the telemetry thing FYI.

    I can definitely understand people being upset at telemetry injections.

    The above is to say I don't think it's exclusively people gate keeping, dome people have legitimate issues with it.I haven't seen people shit on mint a lot and it's an easy distro. Honestly most people are super supportive of mint. That being said there is definitely some amount of gatekeeping.

    [–] superkret@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    That was the point where I stopped using it.

    They included a global search function which in a default installation sent your search terms to Amazon and returned search results from them.
    It also sent them to a web search (with real time results while you typed, including image previews). So it was possible to get shown NSFW images accidentally inside your OS, without opening a browser.
    It was just really bad design, and a heavy-handed attempt of monetizing their OS.

    Of course that could all be removed with a bash one-liner, but it showed where Canonical was headed,

    [–] neonred@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

    Canonical is even putting advertisements into apt ffs. They are insufferable: