UrbenLegend

Which means it’s not bug-for-bug which is quite frankly critical to any dev, enterprise or otherwise...They may be targeting other distros, but it affects all developers who just want to test their applications.

With the free RHEL licenses, I don't think developers targetting RHEL are going to be affected at all by this, short of having to signup for an extra account. I also don't think that there's going to be many situations where a dev would accidentally redistribute in a way that's so detrimental to RedHat's business that it gets their license suspended.

You're right that its mainly targeted at downstream distros and that's where I think RedHat has a point. I think that it's entirely fair for RedHat to be annoyed that someone can build a RHEL bug-for-bug compatible Linux distro and then sell support licenses off of it, which is literally RHEL's business model.

That's just my two cents. There's really not many ways for a company to survive entirely off of open-source development like RedHat does and if we start saying that bug-for-bug compatible versions of their software have to exist, then we've essentially turned their business model into donations and it would lead to them dying anyways.

Don't get me wrong, I am not entirely happy about RedHat's changes, but I also don't see anyone in this thread suggesting a viable alternative for RedHat to pursue and they're just piling on the hate. It's like saying, "Hey RedHat, sorry you're dying. Thanks for all your hard work, okay good luck, bye."

Yeah, I was really eyeing the ROG Flow X13 until I heard about all the Linux issues.

What do you think the intent of the GPL is though? Genuinely curious, this isn't meant as a retort or anything.

Except they're aren't violating the GPL at all. Their source code is still available to subscribers (and it isn't behind a paywall because you can get a free license) and available to the public via CentOS Stream. Their code also goes into upstream projects as well.

The GPL exists so that companies can't just take the code and contribute nothing back. But that isn't what Redhat is doing here so I find your accusations that Redhat is exploiting users to be very hyperbolic.

Don’t use regular Arch if you’re struggling. There are some arch-based distros that are more user friendly, though. Like EndeavourOS or ArchMan.

Yeah, this 100%. Honestly, plain Arch isn't all that hard to use. I'd argue it's probably easier in a lot of ways compared to more mainstream distros...once you have it setup that is. Arch isn't hard, Arch SETUP is hard, so having downstream distros do the hardest part of the work for you is absolutely key to a good experience if you're just starting out.

As far as kernels go, I wonder if it is at all practical to do what Arch does and provide a linux-lts package. Maybe they do and I am simply not aware of it. I haven’t used Fedora in a while.