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[โ€“] -5 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Fedora is an American distribution.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    That slimbook afaik also comes with non-Fedora options. Fedora is developed by the community, so I wouldn't worry too much, but, in case;

    I asked about this before

    tl:dr; if you care about it being beginner friendly, go for Linux Mint. if european & privacy is important, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

    i'd also go for the GNOME one, that's more beginner friendly ร  la "less is more". KDE Plasma is more customisable.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It doesn't matter for open source.ย 

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    , we said about Android and Google.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 8 months ago

    Yes, it's backed by Redhat/IBM but it's a community project. If things goes sideways it'll be forked and continued as if nothing happened. Using any Linux distribution, you're using tonnes of US software. They are still absolutely free and open, this is not comparable to Android that proprietary parts and locked in hardware.ย 

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Out of curiosity, why if fedora considered American?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Fedora is put our by Red Hat, which is owned by IBM, an American company.

    That being said, I use Fedora. Its a great OS.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I didn't know about the acquisition. That said, not all things American are against EU interests. And this one is free and open source.

    I use Fedora too. I'd switch to EU owned, but I need something stable. Hopefully EU government support for open source grows stronger

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 8 months ago

    OpenSUSE is an option. Tumbleweed is stable and has btrfs snapshots by default. I found Leap ironically a bit less stable, the default installers wasn't as polished as TW's last time I used it, so the experience was a bit less intuitive.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    openSuSE is German. Iโ€™d say thatโ€™s pretty stable.

    I donโ€™t care so much about the origins of an OS honestly, but since fedora is owned by Red Hat and IBM I donโ€™t want to touch it. Particularly given IBMs involvement with AI and other such bullshit.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I might try this. I saw opensuse Aeon. I use silverblue. After using an atomic system, I'll never willingly go back. The stability is wonderful

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago

    I use Tumbleweed on my main PC, mostly because I remember upgrading systems being a bit of a pain back in 2008 and I rather liked the idea of rolling release. SuSE also made snapper, a BTRFS snapshot manager.

    The only time Iโ€™ve had problems with my PC is because of NVidia driver updates.

    Aeon looks interesting though. Going to look into it deeper. Iโ€™m in the process of switching my main work computer from Windows 11 to Linux, and Iโ€™m contemplating what would be the best option for stability and maintainability. Nix has been appealing but it feels like that might suck too much time on maintenance, one of the reasons I want away from Windows.

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