EU OS is a new—still in the idea stage—Fedora-based Linux project designed to provide the EU public sector with secure, sovereign, and eco-friendly computing.
because fedora is a much wider used distro which means it has out of the box support for a lot more tools and packages, as well as a lot more troubleshooting articles around the web
alternative question: why not fedora?
you’re not really giving up, or giving anything by using it as a base distro
You are supporting a US company (RedHat) while you could support an European one. You also rely on US based server bound to US patent laws (which are much more crappy than EU ones). OpenSuse uses rpm too so you wouldn’t give away much. OpenSuse is also back by the oldest company (German) selling Linux as a product so you’d have great support. As highlighted by others, otherwise, Ubuntu is more widely use than Fedora and Europe based too. By your criteria (support out of the box and troubleshooting articles online) Ubuntu should be the winner.
Second that, Fedora servers used to work just fine in my country, until Red Hat decided we’re not worthy and blocked IPs coming from it, I couldn’t download the ISO or install any package without a VPN (which is annoying to keep running for some long time), eventually I found Arch to be the next big thing :)
because fedora is a much wider used distro which means it has out of the box support for a lot more tools and packages, as well as a lot more troubleshooting articles around the web
alternative question: why not fedora?
you’re not really giving up, or giving anything by using it as a base distro
You are supporting a US company (RedHat) while you could support an European one. You also rely on US based server bound to US patent laws (which are much more crappy than EU ones). OpenSuse uses rpm too so you wouldn’t give away much. OpenSuse is also back by the oldest company (German) selling Linux as a product so you’d have great support. As highlighted by others, otherwise, Ubuntu is more widely use than Fedora and Europe based too. By your criteria (support out of the box and troubleshooting articles online) Ubuntu should be the winner.
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Second that, Fedora servers used to work just fine in my country, until Red Hat decided we’re not worthy and blocked IPs coming from it, I couldn’t download the ISO or install any package without a VPN (which is annoying to keep running for some long time), eventually I found Arch to be the next big thing :)