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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.
I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?
There’s oculus software for my vr but don’t know what I’m going to do with that
Small update: probably going to do Linux mint as that appears to be the most beginner friendly
Update two: that's a lot of comments, and Thanks for all the info
Like i've said repeatedly, it's the google play store, the proprietary parts they are having trouble duplicating. Even little people can make ROMS on XDA, it's not a big deal.
here's an example: https://xdaforums.com/c/bliss-roms.7296/
If they cannot do the work that single devs can do, then they aren't even trying.
Single inexperienced developers do this with regularity for fun.
There's no precedent for this and it seems like baseless paranoia. Again, fedora's whole selling point is essentially the GPL, getting rid of it would make it completely worthless, none of the KDE devs would be down for this, none of the linux kernel devs would be down for this, all they'd have is DNF... Also, if this happened, redhat having marketshare would be the least of our worries. It really wouldn't even matter.
here's a full list of their projects: https://next.redhat.com/projects-full/
do you even use any of those?
Hell, they hardly even have DNF since they're trying to switch to flatpak, soon they won't even be in control of most of packaging, just the default suite of apps. This is an incredibly bad move if they're ever going to do what you're claiming, it's essentially irreversible.
None of the value proposition of fedora is in the actual software they make, it's the distribution of that software that's valuable, they package it well, but they don't make it themselves... KDE will not go with redhat, they're separate orgs, as is linux, as is systemd, even coreutils aren't made by them.
You seem to be under the impression that fedora is entirely made by redhat, this is completely false, it's just a bunch of things other people make they've bundled together. Redhat does not and cannot have much power over this unless they start building massive amounts of infrastructure from scratch, which they won't be able to justify to investors because it will, again, be entirely against their business model.
The moment fedora becomes proprietary, people will fork, switch, and never think about them again. Even if they do become proprietary through some magic, we'll still have all the previous versions to work with, they'll have to offer some features to make switching to the proprietary version worthwhile, and given what KDE already offers, i can't even imagine what that would be.
They honestly probably don't even need to fork... dnf isn't even that good of a package manager.