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by paddlesteamer 2220 days ago
I hate bloated OSs and unfortunately Mac OS is one of them. I know how everyone wants everything to work out of the box and I know it's very natural to want so but I cringe if I find out my OS doing something behind my back. That's why I'd never use Windows, Mac OS, Ubuntu, etc. They all violate my privacy and slow my system to do so.

I use Debian, I like Debian. When I run Wireshark I don't see unknown requests destined to debian.com. That is the definition of simplicity for me. And yes, it doesn't always work out of the box, you have to install some drivers, change configurations but it's getting better and easier. Yet, I'm a software developer so I understand and like that stuff.

> Linux was always a disaster in terms of user experience and isn't improving.

No, you can't define it as a disaster, it's not. If you're an end-user that understands nothing of computers maybe you can but otherwise it's not a disaster. It's just harder and getting easier by day.