“User tracking” is generally contentious in free-software communities—even if the “tracking” is not really intended to do so. It is often distributions that have the most interest in counting their users, but Linux users tend to be more privacy conscious than users of more mainstream desktop operating systems. The Fedora project recently discussed how to count its users and ways to preserve their privacy while doing so.
As always, an exceptionally good article from LWN.
Why Am I not surprised that a distro infested with Gnome-3 would pull this kind of stunt?
It’s just another example of the whole mindset that has infested the Fedora userbase.
you don’t have to use Gnome you know. That’s part of the beauty of Linux and FOSS in general.
Personally, I think that the Gnome team went on a trip to nowhere with V3 and have not finished it yet.
KDE isn’t much better IMHO but that’s probably the Grumpy side of me coming through.
What kind of stunt? Trying to figure out how many people are using Fedora?
Is that bad?