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Enterprise Linux on desktop?

Anyone using enterprise Linux on their desktop such as RHEL, Alma, Rocky, CentOS etc.?

I'm curious if it's easy to use for this purpose or if the older packages are a pain.

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[–] zenharbinger 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I used Rocky 9 at home for a while. I think I had an emergency with a disk and had to install fedora because it's all I had. I also use Rocky 8 workstations at work without any problem.

I could easily slip back to Rocky over Fedora no problem. But I don't game or do anything except serve ipa.

Edit: and yes these were/are my daily driver desktops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@zenharbinger @anders i have weird issues with almalinux on older (like intel v1) hardware which i didn't with fedora/rocky/etc which makes me think some unredhats are doing their kernels differently
fwiw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@zenharbinger
Okay cool. I don't game so for me that's not a problem neither if games don't work.