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What's new in Fedora Workstation 39
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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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This is why I hate Linux fanatics. They think everything that isn't Foss is malware or something. I've been using Fedora for months now and it was my first time using Linux. Is probably the most modern and best working distro right now. Like it or not is amazing, and with 39 it's even smother. Never had any problems, works perfect with Gnome and nothing has ever broken. Even games play just like in windows with a bit of tweaking in proton. You should maybe try things first and not be so paranoid about Red Hat. It's a company just like many others. You think Arch or Mint wouldn't become just like Red Hat if they had the user's numbers? This world is all about money, so stop complaining and just let people enjoy
Afaik, Fedora is a free software. I don't deny that, and I'm a free software fan. I don't have any problems with fedora besides that it is too heavy for me.
It looks you also care about your freedom because you use gnu/linux and lemmy. However, it seems you have a different meaning of malware.
Softwere is a recipe. Any unwanted step is malicious. You can only determine a step as unwanted by seeing its source code.
Besides this, a softwere can have other functions that are not coming from the code but the license. Similarly they can be malfunctions. For example preventing you from modification.
So yes, propriatory software is malware. I use some malwares also, because they have no alternatives yet. But let me call them malwares.
Copyright is the example of capitalism polluting water to be able to sell clean water to people.