[Brian_K_White]

Fact.

But Ubuntu are if anything worse in their own ways.

So if there is any RH to Ubuntu traffic, I don't expect it to stay.

Anyone considering Ubuntu should probably just use Debian. Not that Debian is the ultimate answer to all needs, just that "if you were considering Ubuntu".

But really I don't know what to suggest these days. Alma & Rocky have a strategy for the moment but who knows if RH will figure out a way to break that at any minute.

That leaves what? Arch? Nix? Gentoo? no. Maybe just everyone makes their own based on Alpine or something.

I mean at work not your desktop.

[mcpackieh]

I think we can probably count on Debian staying true to Debian, so that's a good choice. Besides that, if somebody was using Red Hat and wants to continue using a distro with corporate support, SUSE Linux Enterprise seems like the obvious choice to me. Also OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is great for home/hobby use.

[Brian_K_White]

ok agreed

I actually had chosen opensuse for my own employer for almost 20 years (holy cow, but yeah from about 99 to about 2018) and then switched to Centos due to my feeling that the engineering at Suse had gone down the toilet.

I don't know if Suse got better in the last few years but obviously Centos 7 was an unlucky time to decide to commit to the next 20 years of Centos future.

But opensuse was great for most of that time, and at it's worst, better than Centos now. Suse at least haven't tried to pull either RedHat or Ubuntu shenanigans. They're looking pretty good now!

[rurban]

Almost insolvent and all the top heads leaving doesn't look pretty good to me.

Their prime product gcc being that buggy for a few major cycles neither.