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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alma and Rocky aren't really distros intended for casual use, they're designed mainly with servers in mind. If you want an RHEL-based experience designed for a desktop, go with Fedora.

I used CentOS for my servers during CentOS6/7, but since they moved to Stream I run my servers on Debian or Ubuntu instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the info I needed to know! So I dont have a server; I should probably leave them alone then huh?