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by the8472 4122 days ago
I'm using it, in fact I was a contributor a few years ago.

But considering that the default installer offers a ton of adware too (although you can opt-out of all of that) might not make it the best counter-example for the purpose of this discussion.

The core is open source though (GPL even), so a savy user could just download the .jar (+ libs + optionally a .exe launcher) and launch it like any other java process without all the installer crap. But that's not something most people are aware of.