I kinda get why people hate Ubuntu, corporate enshittification attempts (ads in terminal) and various attempts of non-standard standard creation with partly closed source (snaps).

Why don't people hate fedora for being derived from a corporate OS paradigm and being geared towards achieving the goals of the red hat org interfering with community driven OS stuff? The last I saw of it inexplicitly was the proposed AI integrations.

I do understand there's been several spinoffs to even re-create redhat without having the guys in red hat be in charge (alma, rocky, etc), so some contention appears to exist, I just don't see what's going on properly.

EDIT : I guess Open Suse is too niche and german to recieve the same hate?

EDIT2 : OK, my mistake in perspective, but you need to throw me a bone in that Red Hat corporation is "under legal responsibility" of the Red Hat Company/business/whatever, and has employees working on it. The idea that Fedora is RHEL with things removed is pretty close to RHEL is Fedora with things added, especially since it's "Oh, we have X Red Hat employees working on Y features for Fedora , and Z Red Hat employees working on features for RHEL". The business entity of Red Hat is the one at the head (more or less) of both endevours, which leads to my question.

Why does this corporate relationship and "steering" not cause any ire? It's even owned by IBM at the end of it all.

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What imsufferableninja said. Fedora is still very much community driven. Ubuntu has been increasingly less so over the years. I used it as my primary distro for 20 years, from 2004. It was the second distro I ever used and I stuck with it because it just worked. In 2024, I got curious and tried a handful of distros. I realized how much Ubuntu had shifted their focus to enterprise customers. Fedora gives me a lot of what I liked about Ubuntu without the shitty parts.

As for IBM, it doesn’t bother me much. Save for a handful of exceptions, no matter what Linux distro you use, you are using a product that receives financial support and often developer talent and code from some of the biggest and worst of big tech. The kernel gets that directly. Unless you’re using the Linux-Libre kernel, you get all of that big tech all up in your distro. That doesn’t bother me all that much because I’m not a purist and mostly just want a distro that works well and doesn’t do too many things I don’t like. Fedora fits the bill for me.

I also run Debian and Void on some secondary machines and unRAID and ZimaOS on a couple of home servers. Fedora is what I use every day.

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