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20 years, perhaps even 15 years ago, I would have fallen for that bait, and been like, "I must warn the people".

With experience, sometimes comes wisdom, and those types of people, don't care about facts. They care about their brand or imagine and choice of product or service be the right choice, even if you smacked them with a legal brief, that unequivocally countered their world-view - facts be damned.

Fedora to its credit is not a bad operating system. In fact, I would argue that Fedora is one of my favorite Linux distributions. It is truly easy to use, easy to learn, stable, and overall user-friendly. I like, Fedora Linux. But, I am able to recognize that Fedora falls under U.S. Jurisdiction.

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Show threadBryanJun 17, 2025
@Linux I tried Fedora upon your recommendation (I greatly appreciate it) and enjoyed my time with it. I ended up going back to Debian because I missed the familiarity. My main reservation with Fedora was their close relationship with Red Hat, and ultimately their overlord, IBM.
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@resplendent606

Personally, I think I like Fedora even better, since IBM bought them out. Their support forums are friendlier and the people behind the development right now, often are easy to talk with and work with.

I absolutely hated old school Red Hat. I still have to correct myself, and not call it "Red Hate" because that is how I saw Red Hat, back in the day. It was a bunch of old school users who gate kept and trolled newbies, while claiming moral superiority. They'd stop short of taking credit for Linux's success in the world, and often implied they were the universal global standard to all things Linux.

That said, I digress, and say that things today are better. If things had not changed so drastically in America, I'd still be recommending them to almost everyone. It is not their fault we're embracing fascism and having secret court orders and police these days.
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Show threadBryanJun 17, 2025
@Linux I understand your perspective. My issue is IBM's still a large, old-school corporation. Hard to trust them after they ditched CentOS (free RHEL rebuild) for CentOS Stream (upstream dev) right after the acquisition. I don't believe we should rely on big tech. I prefer community-built tools & supporting them when I can.
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@resplendent606

I am the type of person who is more focused on who does it better. Sometimes, that is the independent development and sometimes that is the big corporation.

Both can help things progress nicely, and both can sometimes let you down, and both sometimes have no place in the ecosystem. That is to say, I judge things on a case by case, as well as, development by development, basis.