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what's everybody's thoughts on Alma and Rocky Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Tbh I do not know the ins and outs of rhel based distros, so these have caught my interest. I've tries live usb of both and I really did like the feel of alma. Rocky I thought felt like every other GNOME system.... But I clearly dont really know much about these sort of distros and their capabilities. Are these considered enterprise grade? I have no clue. Would love to hear your thoughts on alma and Rocky and what makes them different that other distros. Thanks

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're forgetting OpenSUSE Leap for your first point, as well as Gentoo for your third point. 😉

I think the corporate world won't necessary be looking for new fun stuff tech wise. They'll just be looking for what the next door store is using. The fact that there are sought-after RHEL certifications kinda proves this.

Yes, I'm with you. People should just choose whatever they want. The corporate is a whole different beast.

[–] s20@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wasn't forgetting either, I just don't generally recommend either of those distros.

I don't recommend OpenSuse Leap because I honestly can't, for the life of me, see a use case for it. Debian is better for stability, Fedora is more up to date and still pretty solid. Tumbleweed represents another step into cutting edge land with its rolling release model, and I like it for that, and Yast is great and all, but Leap has outlived its purpose. It also seems like Suse agrees with me since last I heard, Leap was going to be discontinued.

I don't generally recommend Gentoo because it's a weird middle ground between Arch and LFS, and I'm not sure what it's for anymore. Don't get me wrong - I've done the Gentoo thing, and it really is excellent... but these days, it seems weird to me to want to go that far and not take the last couple steps to just build from scratch. Unless you're in it for portage, which I can totally understand. Portage is awesome.