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Experienced Linux users, what are you using?
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None of which makes the distro shite. The things I remember them getting shit for are:
Unity/mir
Upstart
Snaps
Amazon ads
Advertising their premium version.
Of all of those the Amazon thing is the only one I have a strong objection to. The rest I can't say I've even particularly noticed the changes if I'm honest and most other Ubuntu users probably haven't either. They seem to get a lot of crap for "doing their own thing all the time" which seems odd coming from the Linux community.
I came to Ubuntu initially because it was the new hotness, I've never really had an issue with it functionally in 12 years or so, so no real need to change.
Why not deb? Why not any number of other distros? I do run deb on my NAS as it goes and I'm not trying to stan for Ubuntu (honestly) but it gets a lot of undeserved hate. It's not a super exciting distro or anything but it tends to work fine for me.