I've happily been a Fedora user for many years now, but RHEL's recent choice to put their source code behind a paywall has me pondering ethical considerations of my distro choice.
It's my understanding that this doesn't have a direct impact on Fedora, and I feel confident that it will continue to be a great distro for the foreseeable future, but I want the commercial/enterprise/corporate influence on the distro I run to be as minimal as possible. For it to be as free as possible.
With that in mind, what distros would everyone recommend?
I only have recent-ish experience with Fedora, Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu. I don't really know much about any others.
Ideally, I'd like it to fit within these boxes as well:
Seeing it all written out, that's pretty picky. And maybe this unicorn distro doesn't exist. But on the other hand, maybe it does.
A final thought. I know Debian has a testing branch. Anyone have any experience using that as a daily driver? Is it viable?
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