[brnt]

These observations are greatly dependant on who is saying it: CentOS folks probably have a very different idea about stability than most Linux desktop users.

Either way, I always had the impression Streams concerns are exaggerated and mostly hear-say. There are better reasons for not using Stream, namely steering clear of Red Hat and not reinforcing their ecosystem.

If I'm allowed to muse, I never understood all these CentOS forks either. Why not put that effort into Debian, a truly democratic distro without any corp able to make these kind of moves?

[khaled_ismaeel]

What is wrong with the Red Hat ecosystem, as long as we stick to the open source part of it? Red Hat's ecosystem has got some really neat pieces of software, such as Podman, Cockpit, virt-manager, Ansible, and more.

[brnt]

None of those pieces are tied to the Red Hat distros, and Red Hat being involved seems to me to be the fundamental issue. They're ever altering the deal they have with their community. Why not join a community that's constituted in a way where no single commercial party can effectively control everything?