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I've tried a variety of linucies, but I keep coming back to Fedora.

It frequently works the best "out of the box". It typically has the newest stuff. Googleability isn't quite as good as Ubuntu, but it's rare that I find answers that just fundamentally don't apply to Fedora.

I've beeen running a home server on Fedora, and in-place-upgrading since like version 28, and never has the OS been my problem.

I recently swapped my daily driver to Fedora from Windows. My biggest complaint is nvidia's drivers, but that's not unique to Fedora.

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For me, that "coming back" Distro had always been Ubuntu but since ~2021, I'm toggling between Mint and Debian. That's largely due to them pushing the snap paradigm down our throats. At this point, it's virtually impossible to escape that as firefox is only available as snap package in Ubuntu and not as DEB.

On the flip side, I don't like the other version of snap (Flatpak) either, especially so since Red Hat pulled that proprietary shenanigan recently. In fact, anyone who is supportive of open source, free software or commons ethos should try to steer clear of anything related to RH after that.

> At this point, it's virtually impossible to escape that as firefox is only available as snap package in Ubuntu and not as DEB.

Sure it is. Just use the official PPA from mozilla. Works great: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

A quick google will find plenty of sites telling you how to adjust the package versioning priorities to keep the MozillaTeam version of FF preferred over the crappy snap one. I still use Ubuntu desktop as my daily driver and server OS, and we have zero snaps installed on any of our systems.

The license never changed.

What part went proprietary. Show me the license change.

I still type "yum install" instead of dnf, so I don't really use any of the newer distribution mechanisms.

I landed on Mint. It’s just enough Windows to make sense to me.

Holy FUD Batman.

It’s a good thing Open Enterprise Linux is here to save us by forking RHEL and their, god awful, GPL packages!

I’m glad to know that pyeri is swearing off so many packages maintained and contributed by Red Hat. Thanks for your sacrifice pyeri

I’ve been tending to come back to Fedora too. One nice thing is that its packages are pretty new without being bleeding edge and without requiring fiddling with things post-install.

Agree that upgrading is painless with it. I’ve never had to pay close attention to what updates change, and it works flawlessly no matter how long it’s been since an install was updated.

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