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>But, since you can't please everyone, it's better to have choice than to have someone's (Microsoft's/Apple's/Ubuntu's) idea of "good" forced down everyone's throat.

Sometimes it's more about not wanting to spend another 5h on config files for some deamon on every new system you have. Using Ubuntu's or Apple's defaults is nice when you want something that works and let's you start getting shit done now.