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anders , 3 months ago to linux

Enterprise Linux on desktop?

Anyone using enterprise Linux on their desktop such as RHEL, Alma, Rocky, CentOS etc.?

I'm curious if it's easy to use for this purpose or if the older packages are a pain.

@linux

d3Xt3r , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

You can absolutely use an enterprise distro at home. Ignore the trolls about “It’s all too old” or “it doesn’t have X software”. I don’t care what version vim, GNOME or pretty much anything is, as long as I can open the core tools I need.

It’s not trolling. There’s a very legitimate reason to use a distro with new packages and that is hardware compatibility - especially if you’re on a recent laptop, and you want all features working such as WiFi, flawless suspend and resume without battery drain or crashes, working Fn keys, or you want to make use of all the power management features in your processor (eg see all the recent AMD p-state driver advancements).

Newer packages (specifically: the kernel and mesa/vulkan stack) are also important for those who are gamers, as several performance improvements, bug fixes and compatibility fixes are made with each new release. For instance, just take a look at these performance benefits of the new ntsync driver:

https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/06836ed5-a14f-4e54-a282-00034a0d1f48.webp

Finally, even productivity users who don’t care about gaming can benefit from recent system packages - consider all the recent improvements in filesystem drivers such as btrfs and ntfs3, and the addition of the new bcachefs driver with kernel 6.7 which is a godsend for anyone running a tiered storage setup.

Also, the entire Linux community has been buzzing with the release of KDE 6 - just take a look at all the new features and improvements - such as much better Wayland support with tons of bug fixes, HDR, ICC profiles for individual monitors, color blindless correction filters for making the desktop experience better for people with protanopia/deuteranopia/tritanopia… there are some very legitimate improvements and use-cases here. How can you just wave all this off as trolling?!

So just because a distro with old packages suits your needs, doesn’t mean that everyone else is trolling. There are legit good reasons why many home users prefer leading-edge distros like Fedora, Arch, Tumbleweed etc.

cc: @anders

foxy , 4 months ago to linux

Apparently my love language is installing @linux on the laptops of people I really care about.

d3Xt3r , 4 months ago

If they don’t use advanced features like macros, they could just use the Web versions of the M365 apps - they work just fine under Linux.

spiritedpause , 6 months ago to linux

A Sneak Peek at new linux distro Zorin OS 17

https://blog.zorin.com/2023/12/04/a-sneak-peek-at-zorin-os-17/

@linux

d3Xt3r , 6 months ago

At least it’s a bit more full-featured than Fedora 39, where they just updated to Gnome 45 and called it a day, and KDE users didn’t even get anything new at all.

bittin , 10 months ago to android Swedish

... @opensuse Project turns 18 years today in 3,5 hours
also @debian turning 30 next week, was thinking of doing something in Stockholm but signed up to an @android developer meetup at Klarna instead and got busy

d3Xt3r , 10 months ago

Cool, but why is this on c/Android?