Tbh I do not know the ins and outs of rhel based distros, so these have caught my interest. I’ve tries live usb of both and I really did like the feel of alma. Rocky I thought felt like every other GNOME system… But I clearly dont really know much about these sort of distros and their capabilities. Are these considered enterprise grade? I have no clue. Would love to hear your thoughts on alma and Rocky and what makes them different that other distros. Thanks

  • hottari@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    I use Alma Linux on one of my production servers. It’s very stable. Never used Rocky Linux, but I would guess it’s also similar i.e enterprise grade.

    They were both created to replace CentOS, a free version of RHEL that Red Hat killed.

    • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m not familiar with that world of linux, what sets rocky and alma aside from the rest of the distros

      • hottari@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        They are both supposed to be versions of a “free RHEL”. You’ll mostly find them used in the enterprise space where the big players are RHEL, OpenSuse Leap, Ubuntu, Oracle Linux etc.

        • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Gotcha, I knew they were more enterprise oriented but wondering if there’s any benefit of using an enterprise oriented distro just as an individual lol its foreign to me

          • hottari@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            Only benefit you’ll get is rock solid stable support at the cost of new kernel and desktop features trickling in very slowly (This is how everything in enterprise in general moves).

            I would recommend using a distro geared towards desktop use such as Fedora.

            • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
              1·
              1 year ago

              Thank you, I never quite knew the differences between enterprise oriented distros and just regular workstation or personal use distros