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So your argument is that anyone who wants to use any proprietary software should just switch to Windows?

I suppose I should stop using Linux then, because I occasionally play games from Steam.

And your games are spying on you. Many of these games employ invasive anti-cheat systems which shake down your computer and send a bunch of data to their servers. This shit doesn't fly with distro packages.

Yeah, they definitely wouldn't be in distro packages, but I want to play them nonetheless. That means I either have to run software which isn't in my distro repo, or switch to Windows.

Just don't ask about using WINE. (-:

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/460036/

You wish! Which distro are you talking about? Can't be Ubuntu for sure...

Ubuntu is an outlier, not a representative of all of Linux. Linux is open source, you can make a distro that does anything you want, including spying on others. This doesn't make the distros that don't any worse.

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