• CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Can we all just pretend Red Hat and its derivatives/relatives no longer exist? It’s clear that the leadership behind these projects don’t care about open source anymore. There are plenty of options for Linux operating systems that actually care about user freedom, privacy, and openness. Anything with Red Hat backing it no longer gets to claim they support any of these.

    Install Debian, install Arch. If you must, install Ubuntu (though they’re not much better these days). Anything but Red Hat.

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      1 year ago

      RHEL is the core IT/SysAdmin crowd. Anyone looking to get into this career space gets a copy of The Linux Bible and runs Fedora to get started. A lot of the Linux core functionality comes from, and is maintained by RH. This is not just a desktop choice for users. If you really want to get to a kernel hacking type of understanding of Linux RHEL documentation is a great baseline where there is info that does not exist in any other source except reading the source code.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t you think that’s a bit extreme? I don’t think that the community debating opt-out telemetry qualifies fedora as not supporting open source. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Fedora is a community run project, meaning basically all of it has to be open source.

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        1 year ago

        There’s so much dumb fud spread about fedora and RHEL anymore it’s not worth the time arguing about it.

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          1 year ago

          It’s exhausting, and shit like this is truly one of the most toxic aspects of the FOSS community.

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      1 year ago

      Lets say I wanted a distro with more bleeding edge packages but not something DIY like Arch, what would you recommend?

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        1 year ago

        Nowadays I use EndeavourOS. It’s Arch bit “just works” Graphical installer, you choose a DE, it automatically installs audio, media codecs etc. But under the hood it’s still Arch so you get daily updates and AUR

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      1 year ago

      Alright, let’s say I’m a Windows user who wants to dual-boot Linux and was planning on Fedora because I’ve heard it’s pretty good for someone transferring over from that OS, but this telemetry bullshit has turned me away.

      What would you say is next best?

      • Billegh@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Honestly, Ubuntu would be a good place to start learning. Then once you’re feeling brave, Debian. Then once you’re really feeling cocky, Arch will happily take you down a few pegs.

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      1 year ago

      Yea, OK. I was a Red Hat apologist and kept using Fedora for a while but after this sadly I think it’s time to go back to Debian. Thank God I didn’t install Fedora on my new server which I was going to set up next weekend.