Can we all just pretend Red Hat and its derivatives/relatives no longer exist? It’s clear that the leadership behind these projects don’t care about open source anymore. There are plenty of options for Linux operating systems that actually care about user freedom, privacy, and openness. Anything with Red Hat backing it no longer gets to claim they support any of these.
Install Debian, install Arch. If you must, install Ubuntu (though they’re not much better these days). Anything but Red Hat.
Lets say I wanted a distro with more bleeding edge packages but not something DIY like Arch, what would you recommend?
Nowadays I use EndeavourOS. It’s Arch bit “just works” Graphical installer, you choose a DE, it automatically installs audio, media codecs etc. But under the hood it’s still Arch so you get daily updates and AUR
Alright, let’s say I’m a Windows user who wants to dual-boot Linux and was planning on Fedora because I’ve heard it’s pretty good for someone transferring over from that OS, but this telemetry bullshit has turned me away.
What would you say is next best?
Honestly, Ubuntu would be a good place to start learning. Then once you’re feeling brave, Debian. Then once you’re really feeling cocky, Arch will happily take you down a few pegs.
But for real though, they had to know that having telemetry be on by default wasn’t going to look good for the open source community.
