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Well, I moved away from Fedora with the licensing change and telemetry proposal. It's a great distro and it's pretty much the most cohesive experience I've had with linux, but those issues have made me wary. We'll see where they go from here, but for now I'm looking elsewhere.
I have no problem with the telemetry, it's anonymized and open source. It could help Fedora. Totally different from spooky proprietary telemetry
Also you have the ability to disable it right in the installer/welcome screen, before anything is being sent. Imo having good telemetry is important, and this is how it should be done!
People just see the word telemetry and get frightened without looking into it in any detail.
The problem is that lack of telemetry is one of the reasons why a lot of distros are still not as good as they can possibly be. FOSS should destigmatize telemetry, for innovation's sake.
I didn't know Fedora had telemetry - can it be turned off? It's important in the FOSS world
I think last time I installed it asked if I wanted to enable it at the end. By default it's off.
At this point it's a proposal targeting Fedora 40 and the exact implementation is up in the air. It will likely be opt-out, but yes, you could turn it off.
Yeah I believe the primary problem (from the community) is that the telemetry was proposed to be default opt-out. Meaning the default choice is opted in.