I have mostly used Fedora derivatives and NixOS over the last few years. I resent corporate involvement in Linux but I accepted it as the cost of top-tier support and maintenance. I’d just avoid the worst offenders, like Ubuntu. However with all of the military industrial ties coming to light, with Red Hat doing this shit alongside its government work, and Nix having ties to Anduril, I’m giving up corporate distros completely. And with systemd capitulating and adding supporting code for the age-verification legislation, I’m looking to get away from that too. I don’t mean to fear monger, systemd and distros including it don’t have age verification or attestation yet, but they’re clearly working towards it.

I would love to use Auxolotl and Lix to keep things declarative and deterministic, but they just aren’t ready yet. Migrating my PCs to Artix this week, and my server to Devuan. Gonna do my configuration with Ansible to retain a sense of declarative config. These projects have their own problems but they’re much more dedicated to resisting surveillance and protecting user sovereignty, which is a must for me.