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

  • GnomeComedy@beehaw.org
    4·
    8 months ago

    I run RHEL on my personal desktop and laptop. Why? Because I use it at work and the more I use it the better I understand it. This benefits me both at home and at work. I’ve even built Ansible roles and playbooks in git to setup my home machines. Overkill? Sure, but I have great peace if mind if I lose a boot drive that I’ll be right back to normal quickly.

    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. For “missing” software: I’ve yet to find any software I “need” that I haven’t figured out how to install (again: Ansible-d) including Flatpak for all the normie stuff (spotify, slack, discord, etc) and I’m golden.

    My $0.02

    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      8 months ago

      Hmm … I’m definitely not going to use RHEL for anything I’m not explicitly ordered to by my employer, but the thought of using Ansible or similar to set up my home system is interesting… I may have to give that a try, and I’ve got a new system I’m building

      • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        You can also use Ansible with just about anything, as long as you can connect to it over SSH or with a REST API. You don’t have to use RHEL, specifically. I use it for “”“declarative”“” package management on my Arch system.

    • anders@rytter.meOP
      1·
      8 months ago

      @GnomeComedy ansible sounds cool. i don’t know anything about it, but it seems like this is a bit of the same as i’m doing with Dockerfiles for my Fedora Kinoite. building my own custom OS image with github actions and then every 3rd day the new image gets pulled by my pc from the cloud.