Why RedHat is BAD

RedHat and all the distros based on it are something I can not use or recommend anymore... This is why. .

[joshua_lee]

So.... Chris you realize your the reason Redhat killed off CentOS since you were not only deploying it, but also not deploying it into companies that would contribute back to CentOS. So you were freeloading.
We knew Redhat was gonna do something like that again why are we all suprised redhat went and did something about Alma, Rocky, and Oracle Linux?

Shoot, you can look at Git logs, there are ZERO commits froma rocky and ciq contributor in the CentOS Stream git repo nor upstream. Ive been looking since the annoucement, and their as toxic as toxic can be.

[DominikZogg]

Fedora is not RHEL based, RHEL is Fedora based, please do not mixup upstream and downstream. otherwise i agree

[hansdampf]

With Debian and arch and any community driven distro it’s still a big problem of the open source world that so many things are run by red hat.
They can pull out their support from one day to another and make projects implode.

[TrippSC]

I'm exactly one of the people you're talking about. I upgraded a fleet of 30 servers from CentOS 7 to 8 just prior to the announcement.

Looking back at their decision, I think it is one of the biggest self-owns I've personally witnessed in tech. Red Hat's historical business model was to stand by the value of their paid support for RHEL, which our company used for mission critical systems, and if you don't need the support, go ahead and use CentOS, which is under their control. Once they killed CentOS, Rocky and Alma took its place in the market, but they offered their own paid support, which I'm sure is eating into IBM's profits. Couldn't happen to a better company.

[marcsingleton]

I do recall a time when Red Hat was the platform to choose.
For server, I prefer Debian, For Desktop, Mint.

[msolace]

As a home user Fedora is fine. As a business most businesses are fine with a red hat service agreement. its just another cost of business. The ones that aren't have the it department big enough to handle another distro and the requirements to keep updated.

[tormstorm]

I still think Fedora is fine as it's an upstream community distro and not downsream from Redhat.

[JohnnyManu]

I used to support the idea of Red Hat, since I liked the idea of having formal support for an OS. But when I started to learn about what was happening with CentOS, and basically anything else connected to RHEL, I started moving away from any distro that had anything resembling Red Hat or Canonical.

I'm now installing FreeBSD on my newest computer. Already did once, but I kind of messed up some stuff with the video driver (heh...). So now on to round two.

[antjoes]

Honestly Valve has been great. They seem to contribute to opensource and don't over reach.

[szenesiswebs]

You say Fedora is dead to you, and yet it is one of the distros that innovate the most when it comes to gnome, it was one of the first if not the first to implement systemD and many other Linux things that are a standard today. That is caring for open source last time I checked. Community distros are until the community either fight among themselves or disagree on something. And sometimes the community makes a distro get stuck and not able to advance.

[bes]

I recently installed Garuda Linux and it seems to be the most feature complete version I have tried, it came with everything I needed for the most part, like OBS, Mangohud, Blender, cad software, image editors like gimp and Krita, custom firefox browser with searxng, multiple custom and downloadable themes, Lutris and Heroic Launcher and Steam and discord, you name it it was all there, I stuck with the default windows like UI and everything seems to just work for the most part 90%, literally the closest to windows like environment as I could get, I have a few gripes, but the major one is no AMD control panel to use things like anti-lag and boost and all those features, if you know of one that would be great, other minor issues are some apps fail to launch correctly(mainly certain games). I tried Red Hat a while ago and it was good, frustrating they messed it up.

[veganconservative]

I'm here because I sub to James O'Kee'fe OMG. Wow.
I'm on Windows 10... didn't want ten and certainly don't want Windows 11. No way going back to Apple.
Seems we are totally screwed though.

Totally agree that as companies get bigger they get more corrupt.

[boolfrog]

Not sure Red Hat /IBM have or will be affected as much, but remember when the industry rebelled / backlashed against Sco and their antics, it didn't end well for them. Own goal!!

[mars_]

Hi Chris, is NixOS vulnerable to being consumed by a corporation? I hear there is a nixos foundation and hearing this video makes me sceptical. Interested to hear your take on it

[johanneskingma]

Creating a good quality OS costs money. Btw Fedora?

[indethbed]

how does your twitch chat type like chatgpt??? i must know!!

[Timely]

This hurts so much because I love fedora. I love being on the cutting edge of technology while being stable-ish at the same time. I love the distro and I agree Red Hat has turned evil for sure. It just hurts because Fedora is one of my favorite distros. It works amazing and performs just amazingly. I know when they force some very bad changes I will be forced to switch like I was with windows but I hope that day isn't soon bc I love the distro.

[victor]

True words. Community is the way when there are millions of programmers worldwide, it's sustainable if the need is big enough (Linux servers for sure, desktop is more about enthusiasm).

~ a beardy former IT guy

[middle_pickup]

The bigger, more successful a company gets the more predatory they act toward their users. Hmm. It's almost like the system of free market capitalism is incentivizing this unethical behaviour. Odd.

[QuikRay]

The two distro's I've settled in on are Arch & Deb without knowing any of what you talked about in this vid. Those distros just seem to work best for my needs and they are powerful distros. They continue to amaze me. Informative vid Chris, Thamks!