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.

    • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I would avoid openSUSE which just wants to be another Red Hat (Aeon is just a shitty Silverblue and the project lead hates KDE) and SuSE in general has been hostile towards free software in the past and will likely do so again if they had to choose.

      That’s disappointing to hear. openSuSE is pretty much my go to to recommend new people exactly because from my experience with it it is well maintained but not entangled too much in corporate bullshit. What have they done?

    • 5redie8@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 year ago

      Seconding Endeavour - Gives you all the benefits of Arch (the wiki, the freakin AUR) without so much of the… Assembly required part. They give you a desktop, a web browser and a firewall and you’re off to the races. A perfect in between, IMO.

          • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            The problem is honestly Arch Linux isn’t missing anything or doing anything wrong that requires a forked distro (except for being hard to install). I loved Manjaro and the Manjaro community too, but at the end of the day it really just doesn’t sell anything besides an installer

        • ianhclark510
          1·
          1 year ago

          with Endeavour and Manjaro and their ilk, everyone who uses it goes through that same graphical installer, ends up on the same page, with Arch and Archinstall, it’s not mandatory, and in fact the archinstall wiki page itself recommends the manual install process, it’s a lot easier to troubleshoot when everyone is running pretty much the same system setup