the outrage is precisely because of what apple, microsoft and google do. we must defend linux and it's philosophy because it could easily not exist. as far as

the outrage is precisely because of what apple, microsoft and google do. we must defend linux and it's philosophy because it could easily not exist. as far as other distros go, if you're a beginner, Ubuntu and this prompt on apt notwithstanding, is still totally fine. there are other decent Debian derivates: popos probably serves beginners better than Ubuntu.