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 ### Terraform vs OpenTofu
 
-There is no way for Renovate to differentiate, if a user is a Terraform user or has already adopted OpenTofu.
-Therefore, Renovate defaults currently to interpret providers without a registry definition to be located at `registry.terraform.io`.
-This behaviour can be modified using `packageRules`:
+Renovate can not know if you want to use the Terraform or OpenTofu registry.
+By default, Renovate uses the Terraform registry (`registry.terraform.io`) for providers _without_ a registry definition.
+
+You can override this default with your own `packageRules`, for example:
 
 ```json title="Prefer releases from OpenTofu"
 {