[coldtea]

You mean to get something like Ubuntu that does the same thing?

Let's set this straight: anything that gives you suggestions (for search, products, dictionary definitions, songs, etc) from the internet, is by definition sending your query to some internet server.

Next drama: Google searches send my search queries to Google.

[inclemnet]

> You mean to get something like Ubuntu that does the same thing?

He obviously means something not like Ubuntu (or at least Unity in particular) that does not do the same thing. There are many many distros meeting this requirement, it's disingenuous to try and imply everyone is doing it.

[coldtea]

>He obviously means something not like Ubuntu (or at least Unity in particular) that does not do the same thing.

You'd be surprised:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/ubuntu-bakes-amazon-...

[4ad]

If you want to use OS X, you need to play by Apple's runes. If you want to use some kind of Unix-like system, you don't need to play by Canonical's rules. There's a myriad of Linux distribution, not only Ubuntu, and then there are the BSDs too.

[coldtea]

So, in each case, you get to decide the rules you want to play with, by going with the OS that satisfies you.