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What do you all think of the Red Hat drama a few months ago? I just learned about it and looked into it a bit. I’ve been using Fedora for a while now on my main system, but curious whether you think this will end up affecting it.

My take is that yes, it’s kinda a shitty move to do but I get why RH decided to stop their maintenance given they’re a for profit company.

What do you guys think? Do you still use or would you consider using Fedora?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have no problem with the telemetry, it's anonymized and open source. It could help Fedora. Totally different from spooky proprietary telemetry

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] TheGrandNagus 2 points 1 year ago

People just see the word telemetry and get frightened without looking into it in any detail.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't know Fedora had telemetry - can it be turned off? It's important in the FOSS world

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I think last time I installed it asked if I wanted to enable it at the end. By default it's off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.