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Basing this on Fedora doesn't make sense. It tells me the private individual behind this proposal hasn't done an extensive analysis on this.
Under what means? The target is public sector and the OS to replace (Windows 10, Windows 11) would be a relatively compatible release target. Fedora is a competent leading edge (Wayland, Pipewire, BTRFS) distro that runs as a 6 month point release. I wouldn't see many reasons to not go with Fedora Workstation as a base unless going for an immutable base or a different core distro (OpenSUSE or Debian mainly).
EDIT: Missed that this is going to be immutabe, so it is likely being based on Fedora Kinoite, meaning there really aren't many alternatives besides OpenSUSE's offerings.
Fedora Kinoite is the immutable KDE variant. It will definitely be ostree based and likely will be something that leverages rpm-ostree. The other option would be bootable containers.
Why wouldn't they use Fedora? Last time I checked they are paving the way from a security and quality perspective. The Fedora team does excellent work.
It's a US based project.
Yes, however it is still a community lead project with a focus on foss.
It is a good organization for the most part.
Because it's run by Americans.
We're way past 'Not all Americans' now.
If you want "everyone" on board I'd take Mint. It just works and, for what I know, has no specific bad side effects.
Mint is not even among the top 10 to choose as a base distro for a government agency or any company.
It's good for the general public
Honestly they could build there own version of Mint based on Fedora. The Cinnamon desktop is fairly portable.
I suggested chromiumOS https://gitlab.com/eu-os/eu-os.gitlab.io/-/issues?show=eyJpaWQiOiIxMyIsImZ1bGxfcGF0aCI6ImV1LW9zL2V1LW9zLmdpdGxhYi5pbyIsImlkIjoxNjQ2ODIxMTB9
Chromium OS isn't really a viable desktop OS.
They need a desktop for what? Open files with applications?
They probably need a working device
Chromium is not Chrome
Chromium is chrome without Google sync . But in FydeOS it has also been reenabled somehow