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You Gotta Use The Right Desktop OS (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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[-] 20nat@feddit.it 24 points 3 months ago

Fedora is a product of an US company

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago

That's true but at least you can review the code and they don't collect data on you like microsoft does.

[-] 20nat@feddit.it 13 points 3 months ago

Yes it is miles better then windows, I even used it for a while, but we are in the Buy European sub.

[-] gruhuken@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago

Open Source and free products aren't counted in boycotts because the point of a boycott is to not financially support something

[-] 20nat@feddit.it 1 points 3 months ago

There are other ways to support, such as being the beta tester for RHEL.

[-] gruhuken@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

FOSS still doesn't contribute to the United States economy and afaik you don't pay to be a beta tester?

[-] dieTasse@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

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.

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