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by incomingpain 329 days ago
>I'm going to say this in a not nice way: that's a you problem.

I always prefer this.

>I'm not saying that you should switch to Arch Linux,

Especially when you Arch isnt supported at all by any version and quite likely to not even work as a video card. Manjaro also not supported.

>ut there is a wide gap between RHEL and Debian based distributions and a continuously rolling distribution. There are distributions that update weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.

RHEL seems to be up to date, the RHEL from May is well supported. I have tested out Alma as vms, but ive never used even fedora or centos in ages.

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I will agree that RHEL has gotten better about upgrading software when they do minor releases but I'm still painfully aware of the pre-9.X days when they would release a new version and the software was already a year out of date.

I personally used Fedora for a long time at the same time as I ran Arch Linux on servers. I honestly couldn't really tell the difference as long as I was updating Fedora every time a version bump came out. The release cadence was fast enough that it never caused problems. I ended up switching to it for my home devices entirely. Though now I run SteamOS and CachyOS because they're Arch without the headaches of Arch.

> Arch isnt supported at all by any version

Not officially supported but it works well for many people who run ROCM on it (myself included). As always, documented on Arch wiki [1].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GPGPU#ROCm