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Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave..

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can't go wrong with Debian

[–] themoonisacheese 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All my servers run debian and it's going swimmingly. My daily driver runs bookworm with huge success

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Bookworm is such a tremendously good release. I’ve been on Debian since Potato, and IMHO we are seeing the absolute best release they ever put out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've used debian on and off since the late 90s, what stands out about bookworm? They've been mostly the same to me, not that that's a bad thing.

[–] themoonisacheese 1 points 2 years ago

For me bookworm stands out from it's lack of standing out, if that makes sense. It's very well polished, stable and I am having considerably fewer problems wince I upgraded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I would hope you could say that with every release.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

"Blue is the absolute color" .. why ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm going to throw my support behind this one as well. I'm circling back to Debian after a long stint on Fedora on my primary machine. I've been running Debian 12 on my desktop for several weeks now and it's been pretty great.

it is one version behind fedora in gnome releases, so I installed the latest gnome from the experimental repos and that worked pretty well. I don't know if I would recommend that for anyone else, but it worked for me.

I have a few personal servers still running CentOS 7, but I will be migrating them to Debian slowly over the next few months. I suspect I will go fine. Debian organization to maintain FOSS ideals over the next 5 to 10 years, so it seems like a good default for me.

I have read about Vanilla OS. It is Debian based with some neat features stacked on top that might be fun for a desktop OS. I can see myself switching to that on the desktop if they deliver on all their promises.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Life long Debian (and Debian derivatives) user (23 years and counting). I have pretty much settled down into (this has been true for years):

Debian for servers.
Mint for workstations (that you want to just work and don't want to spend time troubleshooting / tinkering). Mint is linux your grandma can use (my Boomer real estate broker father has been running Mint laptops for the last 5 years).
Ubuntu for jr. Engineers who want to learn linux.
Qubes (with Debian VMs) for workstations that must be secure (I've been working recently with several organizations that are prime targets either the CCP or have DFARS / NIST compliance requirements).