• WondrousFairy@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I guess they’re following the pissbaby toddler train culture that’s been growing in the techbro community as of late. The whole attitude of “We know better than our users, we’re going to aggressively monetize the shit out of it and nobody is going to care.”

    Guess RedHat is going to learn the same thing that so many others have learned before them: Don’t piss off your users.

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      Especially not Linux users. This isn’t grandma with windows 95, or Uncle with his iPhone, Linux users are almost guaranteed to have in the past tried other distros.

      They will again. Begrudgingly, but they won’t look back either.

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        The average FOSS enthusiast never was the target market for Red Hat. Big corporations whose purchasing departments like expensive support contracts are the target market. And for those, not much changes, and even if it did, those places don’t just switch to another distro on a whim.

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        Linux users also often have their personal files on a separate partition, making switching to a new distro incredibly easy.

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      Honestly I’m surprised it’s taken this long. IBM bought Red Hat years ago. Big blue isn’t known for giving things away.