I am thinking of installing fedora on a work/multimedia station. From a privacy perspective, which version of fedora should I install? They have a lot of “Spins” of Fedora. Does it matter?
Could we update the PG site to give a quick blurb on that, perhaps?
All versions of Fedora are the same as far as privacy goes. Feel free to choose what works for you. With spins the only two choices you have to make are:
Don’t different spins use different display managers (Xorg vs Wayland) and isn’t Wayland better?
Or do all spins use Wayland?
AFAIK all the underlying infrastructure is the same throughout (so all Wayland by default). You are just picking your interface of choice, with GNOME being the least breaking one.
As @HauntSanctuary said, I think fedora has made Wayland mandatory. I usually use Gnome, so I could be wrong about it, but I do remember Fedora KDE is also now using Wayland.
You are correct.
Even XFCE?
Fedora Xfce is a full-fledged desktop using the freedesktop.org standards.
I seems like the XFCE spin is still on X11? Or is it under XWayland translation?
At any rate IIRC only KDE and GNOME has made Wayland the default . You can still revert to Xorg on the login screen for Fedora 40 (current).
Xorg will be removed only on Vanilla Fedora (GNOME) and its KDE spin on Fedora 41 but I do not know if it can still be reinstalled via command line. I guess the difference is that it is no longer as well integrated as Fedora 40 and prior versions.