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by KronisLV 720 days ago
Some people have actually had good luck with Oracle Linux but that’s very much an individual (or corporate) choice to consider.

Aside from that, Rocky Linux also seems like a great choice for many: https://rockylinux.org/

Some also say that AlmaLinux is pretty good: https://almalinux.org/

Personally, I found RPM distros to be quite stable but have largely moved over to Ubuntu LTS for servers (technically Debian also has a LTS release, but it’s not as mainstream) and Linux Mint locally (largely Ubuntu without focus on snaps and the Cinnamon desktop is pleasant), it’s been working pretty well so far.

Then again, I run most software in Docker containers, so thankfully underlying OS changes usually aren’t too bad for me to deal with.
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BSDobelix 719 days ago
>Some people have actually had good luck with Oracle Linux but that’s very much an individual (or corporate) choice to consider.

Jup for enterprise, OracleLinux it is. I don't like Oracle as any normal person would, but they never did some shady stuff with their Linux, it even works perfectly on a Raspberry PI.

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o999 720 days ago
Worth mentioning that Rocky is made to match RHEL bug-to-bug, so an equal alternative to CentOS, Rocky's maintainer is former engineer in CentOS team.

Alma independently manage their updates though, started by Cloudlinux, who are also experts in maintaining EL distros

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