The AI didn’t press the trigger, soldiers did.

If you have to dig that deep, then it’s probably not worth it digging (for me at least).

Most distros let you either opt-in or opt-out of it though. It’s really not as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Besides, the “general” population switching to Linux doesn’t really care about anonymized telemetry.

Discouraging people to not use a certain distro due to its optional and anonymized telemetry, is foolish.

It is indeed a good distro and one of the main distros that brings innovation to the Linux world. If it works for you, then keep using it.

sending user keystrokes to Amazon

That’s a very serious allegation to make without citing any source.

Still collects some user data

Someone has already pointed out, no data is collected unless the user opts in. But, my question is what’s wrong with collecting anonyomized telemetry about most used hardware and most used/unused software features? It helps developers make better decisions.

Because it’s a shit company which seems to employ more lawyers than devs. Their lawyers routinely go after emulators, which hurts game preservation. They also go after fan projects a lot, which hurts the community.

That’s gonna mess with muscle memory.

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

Here is a relatively up to date Chromium fork that supports Windows XP and newer (I am not affiliated with the project btw)

Copium.

“Using LaTeX” and “programing with LaTeX” are very different things. For most people, LaTeX is a means to an end, for you LaTeX is your whole job. You’re the exception, and exception can not be an example.