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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).

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 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!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

How does Oracle play into this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

OpenSUSE maybe?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Arch doesn't come with an interface, the idea is you build it up from the bare minimum yourself

Wouldn't recommend if you just want a usable desktop os

As for gnome, gnome is gnome you can get it on any distro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Will try, just for novelty as second pc..see where it goes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yes, you should. Try something debian based like Mint. Hell, try Arch, which I use btw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

undefined> Given that, should I distro hop?

Yes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Do it, you coward! Hop with me!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think it’s time to distro hop again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, distro hop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

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