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.

@linux

  • Secunergy 🐧@social.tchncs.de
    1·
    8 months ago

    @Shareni Not sure this comparison is correct

    Fedora rather corresponds to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Debian Testing

    Fedora Rawhide is very experimental, OpenSUSE once had a testing version, couldn’t find it now on the download page

    • Shareni@programming.dev
      2·
      8 months ago

      Yeah, I learned more about their lifecycles due to this thread.

      I think you’re correct as far as usability is concerned, but they’ve got a lot of similarities:

      • both are released as daily snapshots, that were only auto tested
      • those snapshots are frozen before an update and tested further
      • then they’re released as a new minor/major version

      The comparison really breaks with leap and sel. While fedora is directly upstream of rhel, both sel and leap are downstream from TW, and leap also has sel packages and so it’s also downstream from it. But I think my point still sort of stands because it seems like they mainly implemented that to get additional testing for sel packages.

      Usability and stability wise, a better comparison would be: fedora:tw -> centos:leap -> rhel:sel