What's a Linux distro that doesn't suck ass these days? Red Hat's stuffing AI garbage 'everywhere' so says the CEO and Fedora is downstream, so I'm going to need a new daily driver.
If Linux is public domain then why can you not continue to use the old versions of Linux before the changes you do not like?
@shortstories @RegalBeagle @Justicar
Excellent point Shortie, you absolutely can do that.
QubesOS is my daily driver, a bare-metal hypervisor built on Xen, and uses whatever mix of Fedora & Debian you want.
Being a type 1 hypervisor, it means you can also run Kali, Suse, Ubuntu, Arch or whatever you prefer, all concurrently. Even Windows if you're masochistic enough.
On the other hand, don't forget the nix BSD's. I used to run a FreeBSD laptop and it was pretty great. OpenBSD is also good.
@shortstories @RegalBeagle @Justicar
As much as I hate what's been happening to linux these days, I would still recommend Debian to others as the best of the worst.
Yes it's woke and Linus has all but confirmed he's a US intelligence partner, but Debian is still the most stable long term & has the best derivatives including lesser known ones like Tails, Whonix, Kicksecure, & Devuan if you don't like systemd.
Combine with BRTFS and you have a stable, usable, reasonably secure & private OS.
@UncleIroh @Justicar Thanks for all the great info; I'll get researching. I've used Fedora for almost a decade, but I don't like the direction AI is going.
@shortstories, That is something to consider. I don't have any services exposed to the internet, so running a legacy OS for my work may be okay. I need to look into the security risks of running EOL OSs. May be easier to mitigate those vs 'upgrading'.
@RegalBeagle @Justicar @shortstories
Yeah, I should have qualified that. I wouldn't expose a legacy OS to the internet for obvious reasons, even with masked services.
Using a local legacy OS in addition to a current OS inside of a secure VM for internet-exposed activity is one way, but that's just a poor man's version of what QubesOS does anyway.
