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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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I loved fedora and it is not easy to choose another distro that fits me that well, but I more and more loose trust in fedora and its future. I think I'll switch from fedora to a real community distro w/o corporation influence, step by step box by box, slowly but steady to get back my peace of mind.
@barusu @beta_tester I've got unbuntu on an old celeron 2 core laptop. 3Gb of ram and 500Gb HD, sounding any gud? Am wanting to move a win10, 4Gb, 1Tb HD, to a Linux distro. Wud Kubuntu be a choice?
Ubuntu is as well a corporate backed/driven distro even with some negative actions regarding user tracking in the past. I was thinking about real community distros like Debian, NixOS or Arch...