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There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.
While we prefer to focus on technical guarantees like strong end-to-end encryption over matters like jurisdiction, these issues still matter, and the United States certainly does not have a monopoly on the best technologies.
We've compiled a list of some of our favorite and highly recommended European privacy tools, to highlight how easy it can be to take your data back from American Big Tech companies: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/
@privacyguides is their a non us based linux distro?
@Mik3y
Ubuntu, Britain
SUSE, Luxembourg/Germany
But HQ country is not so simple or relevant for Linux distros. Debian, for instance is in principle run by a New York nonprofit (SPI). In practice, contributors are worldwide, and source code is freely available.
If Trump took over SPI (with domain name and cryptographic keys), developers elsewhere would quickly reform as, say, "Doubian" and Debian users could switch with a simple reconfiguration.
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@Mik3y
A problem could be distros heavily sponsored by a single US company, like Red Hat. But it would still be possible to set up a clone or switch to another somewhat similar Linux distro. Compare this to switching away from Apple or Microsoft - there is no other source for MacOS or Windows.
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@Mik3y indeed, openSUSE is probably the best option if this is important to you (and I did note that in the article actually), but this is probably something I’d be less concerned about for all the reasons @niels shared.
We have a pretty good sense of what’d happen if RedHat mismanaged Fedora, because a few years ago when people took issue with RedHat’s CentOS changes, the community stepped in with Rocky & Alma Linux, and people formerly on CentOS had a pretty easy pathway out. Very likely something similar would happen with Fedora if things really went badly for whatever reason.