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    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.

    I’m not gonna suggest to you to switch distros or whatever. But most of the modern feeling you are seeing is just the DE, which you can use whichever one with whatever distro. As far as Fedora’s own stack the centerpiece which is the package manager is actually really slow comparing with anything else.

    You think Arch or Mint wouldn’t become just like Red Hat if they had the user’s numbers?

    Yeah. They wouldn’t. I think they actually already do have higher number of users than fedora actually. If they don’t, then Debian surely does.

    Red Hat is a for profit company, and their first goal will always be that even if that means squeezing you and making the experience worse for you.

    Community distros are explicitly about the community and not about profit, and it works quite well.

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      Red Hat’s business is mostly in servers and service to host for companies. Fedora is a side project at most. That’s why I find it funny that people think Red Hat is going to destroy Linux or something. My point was that companies want to make money, and if a distro becomes really really popular is inevitable that sooner or later some kind of corporation will put it’s hands on it.

      I know Fedora is mostly just Gnome, but you can’t deny it’s probably the best implementation of it in any distro. I tried KDE and wasn’t for me. I got used to gnome’s workflow real quick, I have trouble using Windows even. And Arch is definitely not easy to install for a newbie. Idk, I guess all this drama with Fedora is just pointless to me

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        if a distro becomes really really popular is inevitable that sooner or later some kind of corporation will put it’s hands on it.

        Not how it works. And more so in general if you’re interested and curious do some reading on copyleft licenses. It’s truly a marvelous thing and they work quite well at keeping projects open.

        I know Fedora is mostly just Gnome, but you can’t deny it’s probably the best implementation of it in any distro.

        I absolutely can, what. It’s about the same as all other distros that don’t add much or at all to the upstream version.

        And Arch is definitely not easy to install for a newbie.

        If you are interested in trying it some time, once you’re in the installer type “archinstall”. It’s a default installation script that makes it easy to install. There isn’t nearly as much upkeep as the memes would suggest.

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          I tried archinstall. It’s still not easy, specially if you are not very well versed in os installs. As long as Fedora works it will be fine for me.

          In any case, whatever you install will be better than Microsoft’s Windows, now thats a predatory company! I’ll never go back to Windows. And maybe in the future I will try my luck with another distro

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      Fedora IS the most modern distro. First to adopt pipewire, systemd, enables flatpaks by default and btrfs. Probably other things I don’t know. Being first is one of their core goals