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Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave..

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought very similar after the RHEL moves that Red Hat has made. I was thinking OpenSUSE or Debian, but I am still unsure as what I am going to do.

[–] UnfortunateShort 1 points 1 year ago

OpenSUSE is pretty great, especially Tumbleweed. Although the AUR and the Arch Wiki ultimately drew me to Arch, or Garuda Linux to be more precise. It comes with a lot of preconfiguration out of the box, most importantly btrfs and snapshots, on paar with Tumbleweed.