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"You need to try Linux" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Originally this was a reply to this article about a Windows feature called Recall, but there's a good argument the author's concerns resonate far beyond Windows and Meta to proprietary generally.

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[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does that mean that fedora is not recommended?

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fedora is an international collaborative effort but Red Hat is the main sponsor and it is US based. We will have to be careful and observe

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And the new leader (whatever the fuck it's called) is going to be a Red Hat employee. It's why I left Fedora despite liking it quite a lot. That's way too close to IBM for my liking

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you recommend thats as complete as Fedora out of the box ? I used to be on Arch but it was time consuming to tune everything up and Fedora was the bullseye between the flexibility of Arch and a complete solution without much tinkering needed.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was in the same spot not too long ago. I would probably recommend CachyOS or Endeavour. They're Arch-based but a lot of the preconfiguration has been done (e.g., you will have a browser, and printer support, out of the box. Try using Ventoy and just throwing some ISOs on it, makes it really easy to try different distros

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I was on EndeavourOS and it broke 3 times after major updates and i got sick of fixing, i dont have the time for troubleshooting all the time or tinkering with configurations (sadly because i do enjoy it). Maybe later when my life gets less busy which i doubt.