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I hate ubuntu from the bottom of my heart, for breaking stuff and changing stuff that used to "just work" all the time, but 99.999% of the time, that means "background stuff", "normal users" never mess around with, and for normal users, a "usb key -> install -> next, next, next -> finish -> reboot" just works.

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I used to use Ubuntu for many years, but it became a such bloatware. So many things what you don’t really need.

Packages were sometimes also different compared to vanilla Debian. This caused issues in stability (talking more about feature set). Some advanced software just did not work, which worked on equivalent vanilla Debian.

I might recommend Ubuntu for very beginner developer, but not to stick with it longer time. It will give you headache. There are also more privacy-friendly distributions.

Are Mac and Windows not also full of an enormous amount of crap that we don't need?

That does sound quite bad, doesn’t it? That some Linux distributions are getting closer to them? We have a freedom, let’s use it. I’m using it for something minimal, like Arch Linux.

I used to run Arch but I got sick of trying to fix my Grub/EFI settings etc. which it would occasionally break.

Freedom to me is being able to ignore the OS' existence, and frankly Ubuntu is better at that than Arch.

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