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·
    2 years 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?

    • nkey@lemmy.ml
      111·
      2 years 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
        61·
        2 years 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.

        • nkey@lemmy.ml
          11·
          2 years ago

          That’s great to hear! It took me a few evenings wrap my head around it, but now I’m really enjoying it. There’s a great community as well!

    • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
      6·
      2 years ago

      You have to make up your own mind. Personally the association with IBM or Oracle would put me right off a distro. But you can find evil in all these big companies, so pick your poison.

    • reflex@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      OpenSUSE maybe?

      I’ve been looking at it after seeing it had out-of-the-box snapper functionality.
      Although counterpoint to that…someone said the devs were laid back, and I immediately pictured ol’ ernest again. But, first thing I found was a strong counterexample in the form of a very vocal contributor on Reddit.
      Not going to call them out, but let’s just say it’s probably not a good idea having some apparently jaded and argumentative dev be the face of your community interaction. Granted it’s one person, but I didn’t expect to find an anti-ernest.

    • projectazar@kbin.social
      4·
      2 years 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
        2·
        2 years 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
          2·
          2 years 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?

    • knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      4·
      2 years 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.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      21·
      2 years ago

      Go NixOS man it’s the one that finally convinced me to ditch windows entirely and stop hopping

    • A7thStone@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Opensuse. If you’re used to fedora the learning curve is minimal to make that switch. I used SuSE for years until their Gnome 3 implementation had some issues. I switched to fedora for a couple of years, then switched back to tumbleweed a couple years ago and have been on that happily since.