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No matter how tempting, I wouldn't use Fedora since it ships with opt-out telemetry.
Red Hat has a right to shoot itself in the foot as many times as it wants. Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Oracle will gladly take over their business without skipping a beat.
It doesn't ship with opt out telemetry. You have to explicitly opt in.
They were considering changing the telemetry to opt out for Fedora 40.
And the telemetry is anonymous, the method of collection is open sourced, and has been independently verified to not contain personally identifiable information. The proposal was never for telemetry in the way that Google or Microsoft does it.
Multiple other distros already have a similar system in place and nobody bats an eyelid.
Opt-out telemetry has never been the standard for Linux distros.
If we have to bash Ubuntu for telemetry, we have to bash Fedora with the same stick.
I'm not saying you shouldn't use Fedora. I'm saying I wouldn't.
Opt out telemetry is already used by some.
Ok, if you get offended by opt-out telemetry that's completely anonymous, transparent, and only helps developers, then that's fine. Don't use it. Or opt out.
No amount of gaslighting by you or excusing telemetry for good reason will change my opinion on opt-out telemetry.
I don't think you know what gaslighting means.
But ok, I'm not trying to change your mind lol - I said don't use it
Maybe you should look up the definition of the word and come back to your previous comments.
Yeah. That's totally what I'm doing when I remind you that telemetry exists in multiple distros and I explained that the telemetry Fedora was considering adding has been independently confirmed as not having any personally identifiable information.
It's okay dude. You got to learn a new vocabulary today.
Use whatever distro looks shinier to your eyes.
I'm never ever going to use a distro that forces telemetry on its unsuspecting users.
Let it rest.
I didn't, you did. You're the one who didn't know what gaslighting is lol
And it doesn't force it
Stop spreading misinformation lmao