Mastodawn

I'm now fairly sure I'll be switching my main #Linux machine (a quite elderly Thinkpad X1 Carbon) from #Fedora to #MXLinux.

Reasons:

1. Fedora has jumped firmly on the #AI bandwagon recently with its "AI Developer Desktop" abominations, and my inference is that the Fedora codebase and ecosystem will end up as untrustable slop.
[EDIT: but see comments below]

2. Fedora has also accepted financial sponsorship from #AWS, #Microsoft and #Meta for its current #Flock conference; not only that but #today it has unironically praised Meta here on Mastodon.

MX, meanwhile, is doing neither of those things. MX also gives me a chance to try #KDE #Plasma without #systemd to see if that's practical.

#NoAI

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Alexander

@drewph can you link me please the source for fedora being sponsored by microsoft/meta?
I need to read this for myself...

Mx Linux is a great choice btw.

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Drew 🇵🇭Jun 16

@alexanderringler
Yep, the one I saw is from Fedora's official Mastodon account:

https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/116757210716198235

It's part of a thread; the previous post in the thread thanks AWS.

Fedora Project (@[email protected])

Thank you to Meta for sponsoring Flock to Fedora 2026 at the Gold level! Meta's open source contributions span the Linux ecosystem from kernel-level work to developer tools used across the industry. Their support at this level reflects a real investment in the communities that build the infrastructure the internet runs on. Thank you for your contributions to the Fedora community! #FlockToFedora #Flock2026 #Fedora #OpenSource #Meta

Fosstodon

@drewph thank you

@alexanderringler
There's also the official Flock 2026 web page which shows sponsors:

https://fedoraproject.org/flock/2026/