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Does this mean that Fedora will include even more proprietary software? WiFi and GPU firmware are one thing but I don't want the future where Fedora installs steam and candy crush out of the box.
If you're referring to ROCm, that's completely open source (AMD's CUDA competitor). I didn't notice anything proprietary mentioned in the linked article. Unless I'm missing something, in which case, please do let me know.
I'm okay with it as long as it's opt-in personally. It's about user choice, not absolutism.
I don't trust Red Hat anymore so I've moved to Debian anyways.
Fedora isn't RedHat
You can't deny it's strongly connected to RedHat though.
Debian is good and if there is one thing we can count on its the long term stability of Debian