EastofEdson

Right? It isn’t a great revelation that they are in contact over these things. They are clearly working together.

That’s not to say that old Netty isn’t pulling the strings, just that this does not really say anything we didn’t already know.

So he wants to end the blockade by blockading the blockade?

Absolutely. I have no love for Red Hat as a company. My first Linux distro was Red Hat 6. I want to love Fedora for purely nostalgic reasons.

Systemd adding the birthdate field to the user info is definitely troubling. It shows which way the wind is blowing for sure. I should have stated that I am MORE concerned about the AI takeover in the immediate. I am by no means dismissing the systemd concerns.

I’m tempering the systemd thing as I do feel it is somewhat getting blown out of proportion. Though I did try some non systemd distros in a VM over the last week.

A bigger issue for me is this push to embrace AI. It seems all the American tech companies are jumping on board and Red Hat is no exception.

I want to love Fedora but this is the last straw for me.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/red_hat_ai_dev/

Essentially any distro with funding primarily from US tech companies is going to go to shit. It’s only a matter of time.

I do run EndeavourOS on my main PC and it’s pretty great. I have not seen any statement regarding their position on the age attestation crap. I’ll jump ship if they come out in favour of it. I just hope they do not.