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Also Germans in general are more into alternatives like Firefox, Linux, etcetera as they have a healthy distrust to Big Tech. Even though if AMD is quite big itself it was more liked by a lot of enthousiasts there even when their performance was seriously lagging.



Sometimes that healthy distrust devolves into tinfoil hattery. The French also have such a distrust but I never got that neurotic vibe from them.


Totally baseless distrust into institutions: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerium_f%C3%BCr_Staatssic...


It’s kind of hard to reconcile that with their love for unnecessary and over-bearing bureaucracy, though..


Bureaucracy is fine as long as it’s _my_ bureaucracy


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