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I really enjoy the Linux lightweight desktop environments. Not as whizzy as some of the heavyweight environments, but so much more usable and functional, in my opinion.

I am personally a fan of LXDE. It just gets out of my way and lets me do stuff!

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> It just gets out of my way and lets me do stuff!

Ahh, but think of the value our users would get out of us presenting them with Amazon ads in their DE!

> Ahh, but think of the value our users would get out of us presenting them with Amazon ads in their DE

What? Is this in regards to what Cannonical did back in 2013 or something else?

If it is about the Cannonical scandal, I am not sure how that's related to DEs, since it was Ubuntu doing it

Or did something similar happen again with a specific DE?

Yeah, that's the direct reference[1] but also more recent junk like ads in Explorer on Windows[2]. They're examples of the DE (maybe the wrong term, sorry) devs getting in the way of users doing what they want to do.

[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/mark-shuttleworth-explai...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979251/microsoft-file-e...

Well, Canonical did put ads in apt[1]

[1]: https://askubuntu.com/q/1434512

I remember in maybe 2011/2012, Ubuntu did have embedded ads in their Unity DE.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...

Not sure exactly what the OP was getting at, but it might be a dig at Windows and the random junk it keeps popping up now and again (news updates and whatnot).

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