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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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I'll add one more grip: Amazon integration. It's been resolved for like 7 years now, but I still hold it against them a bit for placing Amazon search results in my desktop all those years back. Not that I don't have an Ubuntu server running as we speak, but it still does taint them a tad in my eyes (and probably acts as an anachronism to the "it's a corporate distro" theme of dislike around here).