Sunshine (she/her) ( Sunshine@lemmy.ca ) to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year agoYou Gotta Use The Right Desktop OSlemmy.caimagemessage-square58linkfedilinkarrow-up1264file-textcross-posted to: buyantarctican@feddit.cl
arrow-up1264imageYou Gotta Use The Right Desktop OSlemmy.caSunshine (she/her) ( Sunshine@lemmy.ca ) to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square58linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: buyantarctican@feddit.cl
minus-square20nat ( 20nat@feddit.it ) linkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 year agoFedora is a product of an US company
minus-squarewewbull ( wewbull@feddit.uk ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoThe point is to stop sending money to the US, not to be religiously anti-american. Using Fedora doesn’t make any oligarch richer. The US trade deficit isn’t made smaller either. Plus the fedora community is global.
minus-squareSunshine (she/her) ( Sunshine@lemmy.ca ) OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoThat’s true but at least you can review the code and they don’t collect data on you like microsoft does.
minus-square20nat ( 20nat@feddit.it ) linkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year agoYes it is miles better then windows, I even used it for a while, but we are in the Buy European sub.
minus-squaregruhuken ( gruhuken@slrpnk.net ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoOpen Source and free products aren’t counted in boycotts because the point of a boycott is to not financially support something
minus-square20nat ( 20nat@feddit.it ) linkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThere are other ways to support, such as being the beta tester for RHEL.
minus-squaregruhuken ( gruhuken@slrpnk.net ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFOSS still doesn’t contribute to the United States economy and afaik you don’t pay to be a beta tester?
minus-squaredieTasse ( dieTasse@feddit.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoSame as not every American is bad, not every American product is bad. This one is free and open source, so its ok. And its competition to Microsoft.
Fedora is a product of an US company
The point is to stop sending money to the US, not to be religiously anti-american. Using Fedora doesn’t make any oligarch richer. The US trade deficit isn’t made smaller either.
Plus the fedora community is global.
That’s true but at least you can review the code and they don’t collect data on you like microsoft does.
Yes it is miles better then windows, I even used it for a while, but we are in the Buy European sub.
Open Source and free products aren’t counted in boycotts because the point of a boycott is to not financially support something
There are other ways to support, such as being the beta tester for RHEL.
FOSS still doesn’t contribute to the United States economy and afaik you don’t pay to be a beta tester?
Same as not every American is bad, not every American product is bad. This one is free and open source, so its ok. And its competition to Microsoft.