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I have been saying that Fedora is THE GUY for doing linux in bed with the US government. It's always the first distro to push to mainstream new tantalizingly convenient technologies developed by their pet devs replacing well understood code that's had thousands of eyeballs on it over the years.
I don't fuck with Fedora. I considered them fairly benign-to-positive back when I was less of a hardliner, but these days I consider them to be sucking the good will, talent and money out of the industry, sitting in an incumbent role as a commercial contractor that could be served by a thousand smaller local companies.
BDS the shit out of them. Redhat was cool back in the day, thanks for that, now move out of the way.
It's a fuckin shame because Fedora is genuinely the most stable and functional distro I've used since moving to Linux. It feels like a polished product.
Then again, it feels like a product from an American corporate machine that gets away with it because they're marginally better than their competitiors (see: Valve Inc. and Steam).
And then what? we have Ubuntu derivatives (another US state asset). Debian is potentially close to a stable user distro that isn't as deeply entrenched in the imperial core. But then surely any distro is under the thumb of the fascists? Linux is de facto property of Intel, Cisco, IBM, Oracle, and a bunch of other CIA fronts.
Not to shit on boycotting Redhat or Fedora, but I just wonder how many steps of separation it is from Linux and its own evils.
Yeah I had to make a burner laptop for travel a while back and was really surprised with how slick and luser-proof their distro was. Had like way better mixed DPI support and a bunch of other conveniences I didn't think were solved at the time.
I reckon OpenSuse might be the next best thing to Fedora in this regard, but I've only used it a little bit and don't know enough to whole heartedly recommend it. I just have found Suse had also managed to create that slick professional experience and also streamlined a lot of the best "new shit" into a distro that felt like it should meet the expectations of eg a Mac user or a corporate Windows user (with some training.)
People on the FEDiverse almost convinced me to switch from NixOS to FEDora because NixOS is too problematic.
Linux Maoist standard english lol.
NixOS is also dependent on Microsoft GitHub and AWS for infrastructure and have zero plans to address this.
Problematic in what sense? I don't know much about NixOS or its "scene" or whatever.
I had to make an installer for someone who wanted to install Bazzite which I was disappointed to learn is yet another FEDora RAT.
A large part of tHe NiXOs CoMmUnItY is MIC like Anduril. Which yes is a big whammy.
There are other divides too but this is the most morally hazardous.
Oh yeah absolutely.
Yep, we/they even re-elected an anduril employee to the steering committee (I put him literally last on my ballot and tried to campaign for others to do the same but I guess it wasn't enough). I mostly stopped interacting with the community after that. The tech is cool, Nixpkgs is a goldmine of knowledge comparable to ArchWiki, but the community turned into a nazi bar :/
Tomberek has been voted in last place the most of all candidates. Not something ballot count takes into account.
I'm pretty sure the ballot count did take that into account, it was a Meek STV (single-transferrable vote), so if a candidate was voted low in preference lists a lot they generally wouldn't win. The issues is that while a lot of people put him last, more people didn't.
Putting someone in 10th or in last place makes almost no practical difference, enough people put him among the first places to get him in.
Instead of Bazzite, try CachyOS.
But actually tho. Its testing better than Windows at running Windows games in Wine. https://www.pcguide.com/news/new-cachyos-vs-windows-11-gaming-benchmarks-reveal-impressive-results-for-linux-from-space-marine-2-to-resident-evil-requiem/
What's the selling point for CachyOS? Is it basically the gaming distro based on Arch that is not SteamOS?
Yeah, basically. And its set up to be a much simpler install than Arch.
Again, it beat Windows at Windows gaming.
Thank god for guix!
Thank you!