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pretty sure redhat is just an upstream consumer of fedora project. what's your beef?
mac m2 pro + asahi Linux fedora changed my life
I believe RedHat uses Fedora as a kind of guinea pig to test new stuff out they want to put in RHEL. That results in stuff being put in before it's actually ready even for a fairly bleeding-edge distro.
I dont like this whole thing:
Fedora Controversy Explained Briefly:
Fedora is marketed as a community-driven Linux distribution, but Red Hat (owned by IBM) holds decisive control over its development. Critics argue that Red Hat—whose employees dominate core decision-making—prioritizes corporate interests (e.g., aligning Fedora with RHEL) over true community autonomy, undermining open-source ideals. Despite public contributions, key technical and strategic choices remain heavily influenced by Red Hat, sparking debates about transparency and independence.
That sounds bad. Are there any examples?
I mean it would be easier to just say that fedora is american and suse is european. And thus, suse should be preferred.
Fedora is a great distro, what decision did IBM take/influence that makes it worse?
Opensuse is awesome but fedoras atomic ostree distros are amazing. Opensuse does not have such an amazing distribution channel afaik. There is no bazzite built with suse. And no other ublue project.
The controversy stems from a few things:
Surveillance Creep Fedora devs have suggested a Windows-style telemetry system. It was purposed as being anonymous and opt-in only, but the fear from the community was that it would slowly change over time (much in the same vein as how Windows telemetry system has done over the years).
Conflict of Interest Red Hat was purchased by IBM which led to the perceived conflict of interest it may then have. RHEL went closed source after this which has been a red flag to many people in the Fedora community.
Flatpak Fedora maintains its own flatpak builds (a lot of which don't work as they are outdated). Without clearly knowing what you are doing, there is a good chance you'll be installing outdated Fedora versions as it runs side-by-side with the non-Fedora.
Wayland This I don't see as an issue, but many users do. The community does mention sometimes that Fedora prioritizes bleeding-edge new over stability. If you combine that with #3 though, I don't put much weight in it.
I dont know much about this topic. I just had to choose a distro. So decided for a distro without controversy. xD
But i heared nice things about bazzite.
My plan was to test cachy first, didnt liked manjaro and endavour but ppl say cachy is nice.
I dipped a toa in Nix OS but this was too much of a learning curve for me.
distro without controversy seems like a unicorn to me....
https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-nixos-conflict-in-under-5-minutes
liking a distro is highly subjective and i'd recommend trying as many as possible to find the one that suits you and your workflow not the opinions/workflows of others.
Are you rowing back on your statement against redhat? Am I understanding this right?
As i said, dont know much about this. Thats just what i found, when i searched a distro for my desktop.