It makes them part of the cultural Zeitgeist. And when they are already famous, it maintains their currency in that regard.

Ah that really sucks. Who should be on the hook for replacing and fixing all this?

I started a serious answer and then read the last part. Well played.

That sounds like it should be seriously checked. Hopefully there’s no lead, but that’s not sure given what you’re saying.

Well then it’s too late… I’d much rather avoid people the excruciating pain.

Or an OS that can rollback easily (ie: Silverblue and friends, NixOS…) Unless you’ve mangled your bootloader. Then the USB drive comes in handy 😄

Suse is a lot smaller than Red Hat. Amazon with their Amazon Linux rebuild of RHEL (is that still the case?) are auch larger danger to Red Hat than Suse.

Oracle is a nasty piece of work of a company, and also just push a RHEL clone (“Unbreakable Linux”, hence the Red Hat shirts “Unfakeable Linux”).

Oh no. Can we please stop pushing (Open)PGP / GPG?