I think the search terms were being sent by unity and not Ubuntu itself, I haven't used Ubuntu for years(I find it a bit bloated) but I remember reading that Un

I think the search terms were being sent by unity and not Ubuntu itself, I haven't used Ubuntu for years(I find it a bit bloated) but I remember reading that Unity was discontinued so it should not be a problem with another desktop environment. for me personally, I use Manjaro at home and I'm very happy with it, although I have an old thinkpad so that might be why I haven't faced any driver or other kinds of problems. for work I'm currently using a mac since that is the only hardware the company provide, but I always found Opensuse Leap to be the best, very stable and with a relatively recent packages.