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I very much don't care for ElementaryOS, but I really don't think it's fair to paint it as "Ubuntu painted up to look like MacOS". It's not just GNOME with some extensions. They made a whole desktop environment and suite of applications for their distro. That's a ton of work. I think any distro that does that deserves some amount of respect.