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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] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about just running the good and stable Debian and ignore anything else that might be half proprietary or turn to be abandonware sometime in the future. Most arguments against using Debian are just lies and lack of knowledge, if you want real stability and long term support go with Debian. Also, most likely 99.99% of the people that used CentOS can run everything they need on Debian with zero issues.

But oh well this CentOS / RedHat mess just proved what I know for a long time: people deserve what the had. Why you may ask? Because right on the that mess a large percentage of people migrated from CentOS to Ubuntu Server replacing one problem with another. When are people going to learn NOT TO use questionable open-source?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was running debian bookworm but was having issues with random Freezing And loss of touchpad and keyboard and also was having issues with my WiFi firmware or drivers idk. I mean I liked debian, but I couldn't fix the problems so I aborted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting... I've been using it mostly on HP laptops and everything has been working out of the box perfectly since ever. Even the custom keys and stuff.

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

Man my actual technical expertise is sorta limited, so it could have been user error too. I try to follow guides or tutorials, other times if it seems simple enough, I wing it lol