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  • The controversy stems from a few things:

    1. Surveillance Creep Fedora devs have suggested a Windows-style telemetry system. It was purposed as being anonymous and opt-in only, but the fear from the community was that it would slowly change over time (much in the same vein as how Windows telemetry system has done over the years).

    2. Conflict of Interest Red Hat was purchased by IBM which led to the perceived conflict of interest it may then have. RHEL went closed source after this which has been a red flag to many people in the Fedora community.

    3. Flatpak Fedora maintains its own flatpak builds (a lot of which don’t work as they are outdated). Without clearly knowing what you are doing, there is a good chance you’ll be installing outdated Fedora versions as it runs side-by-side with the non-Fedora.

    4. Wayland This I don’t see as an issue, but many users do. The community does mention sometimes that Fedora prioritizes bleeding-edge new over stability. If you combine that with #3 though, I don’t put much weight in it.








  • I had a similar setup to this awhile back. You have to port the number to your VoIP provider of choice and then decide on what client you are going to run (no need for SIM card). I was wanting voice service and only needed limited SMS, so I went with linphone (and played around with zoiper too). If you are needing good SMS support, then JMP is probably the best. It supports both SMS and MMS. You won’t get E911 access I believe, but as data only its a good solution.

    Free wifi is all over the place and if you wire up a mobile hotspot in your car (yes it somewhat defeats the purpose), you can get some pretty decent coverage.



  • I think its easier and shorter to say what is the same between the two than different, but some things that are different:

    1. Filesystem (ex. Linux treats everything as a file, more flexibility in organization, more compatibility for differing systems, etc)
    2. Security Model (NTFS vs UNIX, selinux, ACLs, etc)
    3. File Execution (File extensions don’t really matter in Linux - based on file permission not extension, ELF vs PE, etc)
    4. Kernel (Monolithic vs Hybrid kernel systems - Windows hands off to HAL vs the Linux kernel doing core functions)
    5. System Calls (Windows use Win32/NT APIs, Linux uses POSIX-compliant)

    Performance is dependent on use case, but in general:

    1. Linux uses fewer system resources
    2. Linux has faster boot time
    3. Linux has better CPU/disk throughput
    4. Windows has better gaming driver support
    5. Linux has higher stability/control (hence why its the defacto server OS)

    If we stripped all ms’s junk out and made windows open source, would we still prefer linux?

    In what context? For gaming maybe, but that’s one single use. There is more to computers than video games, at least for the majority of Linux users. I wouldn’t trust Windows on any server I run.