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Basically you need to have a list of packages to avoid in your head. :) And with every passing release there are more. Great!!
Since I've gone back to using Ubuntu I've managed to avoid these traps somehow.
While their practices suck, they don't exactly have a monopoly. If they're eventually bought out by MS, something could happen. (So far, MS seems happy (and capable) to do its own thing though.)
Yeah, but this is a public thread in an English-language community.