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I am eternally grateful to Canonical for Ubuntu. In the 2000s, Ubuntu nade it easy for people like me to onboard to the Linux world.
But I also recognize that Ubuntu is no longer for me.
Shipit was especially such an amazing program. Were it not for a friend of mine handing me a disc with an Ubuntu 5.04 CD on it, I may have never gotten a taste of Linux.