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by LaLaLand122 1043 days ago
What's exactly "the enterprise world"?

Honestly, all the distributions "just work" and are "stable" (i.e. they don't crash and corrupt your data). You could just pick up a random one. You will find some specific problems affecting you, sure... you will report (or even fix) them and, after a while, the distro will be perfect for you (it will still have some problems, but none affecting you because you have reported/fixed them).

The main thing about RHEL is that it's "stable" (i.e. it doesn't change) over a crazy long period of time. If you are selling software, the lack of change makes it easy to support. If you are buying software, it's a good platform to use because developers support it.

RHEL being historically the most popular "doesn't change" distro, I have never seen a big point in using other. Nowadays your vendor is probably also supporting Ubuntu, though. SUSE? A lot of them will support it, but not all. As long as the vendors you use support the distro you use it doesn't matter, I guess.