Motivation Opportunity is upon us! For the past few years, the desktop Linux user base has been growing at a historically high rate. StatCounter currently has us at 4.14% desktop OS market share for Q2 2025. For comparison, when Fedora Workstation was first released in Q4 2014, desktop Linux was at 1.38%. Now, StatCounter measures...
  • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Fedora and Debian have similar philosophies. FOSS only, packages must be built from source, no vendored dependencies. So they have similar policies regarding security and Fedora Flatpaks align closer to that than Flathub.

    I believe Debian also doesn’t ship patented codecs in their main repo.

    • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
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      2 days ago

      that makes a little more sense, though debian is not as strict as fedora about propietary software (it is in the separate nonfree section, but that’s it)