RandomPrivacyGuy

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[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago

Fedora is NOT owned by red hat, it’s just sponsored by them. That is like saying you shouldn’t use arch or kde because they’re sponsored by Valve

Is Arch Linux trademark owned by Valve? Does Valve own the Arch logo? Is Valve paying for Arch servers and build systems? Maybe Valve is hosting the Arch Linux website? This is absolutely not comparable. There is a difference between simply being sponsored and owning THE ENTIRE infrastructure and even trademarks.

 

I've seen Fedora being widely recommended among the Linux distros. Sadly, there are many problems that come with Fedora. A lot of this information might be a bit hard to find so I wanted to put everything I found in one place.

  1. Fedora is (kind of) owned by Red Hat (IBM).

Red Hat sponsors Fedora. They own and pay for the infrastructure used for all the Fedora-related things. They own the Fedora trademark and logo. Big decisions are made by the FESCo. While the committee itself is elected by Fedora community, they're pretty much just exclusively Red Hat employees (for F41 elections all 5 of elected candidates work at Red Hat). I'm not going to talk about what-ifs much here, but if there would ever be a divide between what RH wants and what community wants, you can see it being an issue.

  1. US laws and Fedora

Fedora has to follow the US law. In practice, we have seen what that means a while ago, when they had to remove support from some multimedia codecs due to the US patent laws. Since then, basic functionalities like video playback in a web browser/video player have been broken, so for example you can't play Twitch videos "by default" in Fedora, since the codecs are missing (youtube works as they use av1). To circumvent it, you either have to use third party repos or flatpak.

  1. Fedora Export Control Policy and it's consequences

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/export/ Yet another US law that Fedora has to adhere to. Basically, if you live in a country that the USA treats as an enemy, you should not use Fedora. This is yet another one that was actually applied in real life and resulted in basically kicking out a longtime contributor because he had the misfortune of being born in the wrong country. You can read all about in on that person's blogpost:

https://ahmadhaghighi.com/blog/2021/us-restricted-free-software/

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 6 points 13 hours ago

I'd argue "mainstream gaming" should mean all the most popular multiplayer titles, since they pull the biggest chunk of the total gamer base. And that means Linux is not ready for mainstream gaming. LoL, Roblox, PUBG, Valorant, Battlefield, R6S. These don't work on Linux. I think posts like these are very misleading, as some people will think that all these popular multiplayer titles will work fine on Linux.

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 18 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (12 children)

Yeah, I remember how my grandfather and everyone he knew fought tooth and nail just to stop America from dismantling communism in eastern Europe!

Oh, wait, he didn't. Everyone celebrated when it fell.

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you consider a proprietary browser better, then sure.

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Here we go again. They just want to "protect kids"!

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

🇵🇱 Stanisław Lem - sci-fi author, had some good predictions on future tech. There is a video game loosely based on one of his novels, "The Invincible"

🇵🇱 Andrzej Sapkowski - The Witcher series

🇬🇧 Dan Abnett - great Warhammer 40K books

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

Yeah. I've seen so many posts of people trying to ditch their phones or just electronics in general to buy a new, EUROPEAN product. There are better ways to spend money and do some good.

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Oof.. I got a Suunto smartwatch few years back. Build quality was really good with titanium & sapphire glass. I guess when it's time to buy a new one, I'll look somewhere else. Such a shame, the company has a bit of history.

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I’ve been tempted to give a Nazi solute

Uhh... okay?

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Are you suggesting something bad would happen to a teenage Israeli student if he happened to be in the middle of Gaza with no help? Curious.

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

No, it's not. And even if you want to call that a discrimination, it's a positive one.

[–] RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The infrastructure argument is just BS in 2025

Why? Do we have free electricity and data centers? Sign me up for my share of both.

 

I've been using Linux exclusively for about 8 years. Recently I got frustrated with a bunch of issues that popped one after another. I had a spare SSD so I decided to check out Windows again. I've installed Windows 11 LTSC. It was a nightmare. After all the years on Linux, I forgot how terrible Windows actually is.

On the day I installed the system and a bunch of basic software, I had two bluescreens. I wasn't even doing anything at that time, just going through basic settings and software installation. Okay, it happens. So I installed Steam and tried to play a game I've been currently playing on Linux just to see the performance difference. And it was... worse, for some reason. The "autodetect" in game changed my settings from Ultra to High. On Linux, the game was running at the 75 fps cap all the time. Windows kept dropping them to around 67-ish a lot of times. But the weirdest part was actual power consumption and the way GPU worked. Both systems kept the GPU temperature at around 50C. But the fans were running at 100% speed at that temperature on Windows, while Linux kept them pretty quiet. I had to change the fan controls by myself on Windows just because it was so annoying. The power consumption difference was even harder to explain, as I was getting 190-210W under Linux and under Windows I got 220-250W. And mind you, under Linux I had not only higher graphical settings set up, but was also getting better performance.

I tried connecting my bluetooth earbuds to my PC. Alright, the setup itself was fine. But then the problems started. My earbuds support opus codec for audio. Do you think I can change the bluetooth codec easily, just like on Linux? Nope. There is no way to do it without some third party programs. And don't even get me started on Windows randomly changing my default audio output and trying to play sound through my controller.

Today I decided to make this rant-post after yet another game crashed on me twice under Windows. I bought Watch Dogs since it's currently really cheap on Steam. I click play. I get the loading screen. The game crashed. I try again. I play through the basic "tutorial". After going out of the building, game crashed again. I'm going to play again, this time under Linux.

I've had my share of frustrations under Linux, but that experience made me realise that Windows is not a perfect solution either. Spending a lot of time with Linux and it's bugs made me forget all the bad experience in the past with Windows, and I was craving to go back to the "just works" solution. But it's not "just works". Two days was all it took for me to realize that I'll actually stick with Linux, probably forever. The spare SSD went back to my drawer, maybe so I can try something new in the future. It's so good to be back after a short trip to the other side!

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