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Now that Red Hat is being IBM-fied, should I leave Fedora Kinoite? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Raphael@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I left Ubuntu when they sent all my dock search history to Amazon. But this time is different, should I leave Fedora considering how much it is developed by Red Hat?

I've actively defended this distribution and Red Hat for many years now and I'm deep in their technology but I want to avoid being a Devil's Advocate.

EDIT: I decided to give it some more time, I'll stay on Kinoite for now, if Red Hat's IBMfication reaches Fedora, I'll switch to Debian assuming we don't have a high quality immutable replacement by then. I've been on /r/opensuse and read rbrownsuse's posts enough times to know MicroOS KDE is NOT a good suggestion, their rebranding doesn't clean up their history.

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[–] neardeaf@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s honestly hard to say. Pretty much only pure vanilla Debian hasn’t done something I disliked. Okay well except the whole “systemd will not be a thing” ordeal before they changed their minds on that. I think you should wait and see, because RHEL is the original RPM based distro they all stem off of. Companies are just doing everything they can to stay afloat, which results in shitty feeling decisions like this.

[–] SinJab0n@mujico.org 4 points 1 year ago

Companies are just doing everything they can to stay afloat, which results in shitty feeling decisions like this.

Are we still talking about IBM and his ridiculous amount of capital ?

If u don't like it change red hat to anything else, I'm not happy with them trying to put open code behind a paywall, and how they r calling us leeches eveb when the community has developed a lot of tools for the ecosystem. Even tough they r somewhat a little behind trends (and development ) I have been with debian for a reason, like how they still support older platforms.

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty much only pure vanilla Debian hasn’t done something I disliked.

You probably are only considering the top 3 Linux distros or something? There are a lot of independent distros out there that have never disappointed me. They tend to be noncommercial (the commercial incentive is what ultimately kills a distro.)

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

If you don't like systemd but still want to use Debian, try Devuan.