Rising tensions with the U.S. are spurring new plans in Europe to do something that has long seemed impossible: break with American technology in favor of homegrown alternatives.
President Trump this week dropped his threat to take control of Greenland by force if necessary. But even the possibility of armed conflict with allies has injected new urgency into long-simmering debates in Europe about how to reduce its reliance on U.S. tech infrastructure and tools that support swaths of the economy.
The worst-case scenario for European officials? A White House executive order that cuts off the region’s access to data centers or email software that businesses and governments need to function.
Somewhat more freedom, yes. But we should still be wary of ways even that infrastructure could be shut down… https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/export/
Getting new live/installation images or updates from Fedora or RHEL and many other softwares might become difficult if the US seriously wants to hurt us.
Don’t use fedora or rhel, use suse or arch instead.
Last time I (was forced to) use SUSE it was unfortunately vastly inferior to RedHat. Mainly in terms of reliable stability like how they claim to have the longest supported major versions but change so much in their “Service Packs” that you’ll have to be on your toes every 18 months anyway (and release notes for the SP wasn’t really created, only for major versions). and Arch doesn’t even try to deliver that kind of stability…
Ubuntu is probably a better bet since at least Canonical is based in the UK. Or simply Debian
Are those not American then?
Suse, to my knowledge, is german.
We can also consider Debian, as it is widely spread and considered as a global distro.
Nope and neither is Ubuntu
Which of the two is more beginner-friendly?
Probably Ubuntu but Linux mint which is based on that would be even better.
Mint is definitely the distro to recommend to beginners and people who want a no fuss system that just works with minimal upkeep. Ubuntu unfortunately went down the path to enshittification.
I meant of Suse and Arch, but yeah.
Arch is not begginer friendly and has a very hands on install experience.
Yes, I offered it because Fedora is used by many powerusers that are better served by Arch than Suse.
Independent mirrors will solve the problem (partially). If they restrict access we’ll effectively “fork” it and take from there (at this point we can ignore ip laws or whatever).
Most mirrors in my country are based at univerties servers. One was even docked at a cable/communications company.
Isn’t this the norm?
It is, additionally, various service/CI/cd/cloud/etc. have their own mirrors to reduce inbound traffic and latency.
But if we increase the Linux share even 10 times (from 1% to 10%) - it’s going to put a huge strain on them.
So adding state/eu sponsored “sources of truth” (in addition to existing mirrors within the eu) would make some sense.