Please don’t say Bazzite as I wasn’t able to get SteamVR working on it. I’m looking for alternatives. The current plan is to try plain old Ubuntu instead.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I downvote this every single time I see this. This is just not true.

    In the same way Mint relies on Canonical to keep Ubuntu chugging along, Red Hat contributes to the Fedora community. It’s a symbiotic relationship, so think of that what you will, but there is functionally no difference between RedHat<>Fedora and Canonical<>Mint.

    Both Mint and Fedora are community projects licensed and attributed as such, and neither corporate entity could take ownership or close either one.

    • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Both Mint and Fedora are community projects licensed and attributed as such, and neither corporate entity could take ownership or close either one.

      I wasn’t suggesting that they would. Rather, I was referring to the strong influence that Red Hat has over Fedora. It might be fine for people who love Red Hat’s design choices, but not so much for people who don’t. That’s why I mentioned Mint as an alternative.

      there is functionally no difference between RedHat<>Fedora and Canonical<>Mint.

      There is, because Debian is upstream of Canonical/Ubuntu. This means Mint can easily sever ties with the latter. In practice, Mint has opted out of Ubuntu-isms more than once, and already maintains a distro based directly on Debian.

    • gigachad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yep, that’s absolutely true. They mentioned LMDE however, which is based on Debian, meaning it’s independent from Canonical.