I’m curious about what you think on how it will affect the Linux community and distros (especially RHEL based distros like Fedora or Rocky).

  • ebike_enjoyer@slrpnk.net
    21·
    1 year ago

    My immediate thoughts as a fedora user: Fedora is looked at as a bleeding edge testing distro for what eventually goes into red hat. By using fedora, I am sort of a beta tester for ibm, and am in some ways contributing to the improvement of a distribution (red hat) that goes against what I believe a Linux distribution should do. Given that, should I distro hop?

    Or is my brain just trying to make me distro hop again?

    • knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      You could just use Fedora and not submit any bug reports as that would help them. Just quietly leech.

      It’s nice if you can find something that both does what you need and agrees with your philosophy…but usually some compromise is required.

    • nkey@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Edit: spelling

      I would never consider Fedora bleeding edge, but that being said, after the Red Hat lawyers forced the removal of H.264 I did end up hopping after 5 very great years with Fedora. If you’re up for learning something new NixOS is a lot of fun.

      • ebike_enjoyer@slrpnk.net
        1·
        1 year ago

        NixOS is actually what I was considering! I like the immutable aspects of it but the setup will require me to find some downtime in order to get started.

    • projectazar@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      You aren’t the only one. Ive been on Fedora for a few years because I liked what Gnome was doing, I liked the updated Kernel, and I was annoyed by canonical. Now I’m not really sure where to go, as both Pop and Mint do not, in their current forms, work well with my hardware.

      • cinaed666@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        Not to revive any lame memes, but have a look at Arch Linux! I’ve been daily driving it for 10 years. It’s way more “updated” than fedora is.

        • spiritusmaximus@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          does it have same interface? Fedoras gnome is unmatched (…to me, as far I tested around distros).

          Or is there any other equivalent, similar to fedora and its gnome?

          • flashgnash@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            Arch doesn’t come with an interface, the idea is you build it up from the bare minimum yourself

            Wouldn’t recommend if you just want a usable desktop os

            As for gnome, gnome is gnome you can get it on any distro