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What OS do you use on your pc and why? (lemmy.one)
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[–] tubbadu@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What kind of business practices?

[–] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

For one, there's everything they did to CentOS after they bought it.

[–] spaghetti_carbanana@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MS have always been a little shitty and I don’t want to sound “high horse”-y since everything is flawed in one way or another, but basically:

  • the creep of advertising into the OS (despite charging for a license for Windows)
  • the substantial telemetry/metric and analytic collection of the user activity
  • the installation of so much unwanted garbage (e.g. candy crush, tik tok, etc)
  • the use of its user base as “beta testers” by pushing half-baked features
  • the removal of features

I understand that they’re running a business and that they can’t support old OS’ forever and can’t appease every user, but the above was more than enough for me to jump ship.

Edit: sorry I realised after replying you meant red hat lol, @Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works said exactly what I was referring to. For those looking for an alternative, Rocky OS is the new CentOS and is built by its original creator.