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Red Hat / Fedora drama? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by Kaidao@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What do you all think of the Red Hat drama a few months ago? I just learned about it and looked into it a bit. I’ve been using Fedora for a while now on my main system, but curious whether you think this will end up affecting it.

My take is that yes, it’s kinda a shitty move to do but I get why RH decided to stop their maintenance given they’re a for profit company.

What do you guys think? Do you still use or would you consider using Fedora?

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I had settled on Fedora but after that debacle I decided to move to OpenSUSE - no complaints there.

There's plenty of choice, why stick with Red Hat?

[–] jsh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I did the same thing, actually. 😅

Ubuntu drama, switched to Fedora

Red Hat drama, switched to OpenSUSE.

But now I have to learn everything because I'm still stuck on APT. I like Zypper and OPI, though. I just wish it wasn't so freaking slow.

[–] feminalpanda@lemmings.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu drama? Don't like snap or something else?

[–] jsh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not really that I dislike Snap, but the little petty war against Flatpak that Canonical has started is just an 'ick to me. Besides that, switching was a no brainer for me I like bleeding edge software, and I own an Intel Arc card, which benefits from the improvements found newer versions of Mesa.

[–] feminalpanda@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago

True, I tried snap on desktop a few years ago. Now I run Ubuntu server with everything I can in docker.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

'sudo zypper ref' and 'sudo zypper dup' (or up on leap) has done the trick for me. It's a bit slow though true.

Being able to use .rpm files is nice though

[–] jsh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Very helpful, will try.

[–] GnomeComedy@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/opensuse-seeks-a-leap-replacement-but-will-distro-community-rise-to-the-challenge/

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eh, who used Leap anyhow? Tumbleweed should be used by pretty much any home desktop user

[–] GnomeComedy@beehaw.org 0 points 10 months ago

The drama is about Red Hat ENTERPRISE Linux, not about Red Hat Home Desktop Linux.