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I somewhat agree with the Mac thing, but the same could be said for KDE or Cinnamon and Windows. Don't try to act like they didn't take the Windows UX and run with it lol. But of course if you called their DEs an attempted Windows clone they wouldn't like it either.
The ability to OPTIONALLY pay for apps right from the software centre is a good thing. The money goes to the developers and FOSS has serious problems in terms of actually funding developers. Flathub is looking to implement similar functionality.
You can install elementary apps on other distros just fine... They're available as flatpaks.
Blatant transphobia. Classic.
They aren't restricting freedom at all lol, and even if they were, nobody's forcing you to use Elementary.
It's not transphobia, it's reality and that guy is an abomination.
I'm not American so I don't give a crap about who is offended.