Am Linux Sysadmin, so I actually spend ALL of my work time trying to use Linux on work devices.

If you care at all about Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, yes. See the Dec 2020 announcement. https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

Tell me you don’t understand what those distros are without telling me you don’t understand what those distros are.

Have you searched this question online? It’s been asked thousands of times. See Sander Van Vugt’s books and videos. 2nd best thing to the official resources (if not better in some ways).

And use Linux for work, what’s your point? You seem to imply Linux is only for personal.

Finder is crasherific.

Rocky Linux would meet all of your needs easily and give you 10 years of support.

That’s not how failing hardware works. Recycle and use another piece of non failing hardware.

Can you use snaps with autofs/NFS yet?

I can only imagine what that much RAM and a system that could hold it cost 10 years ago. Yikes.

A post like this doesn’t do anything towards fixing those bugs. I bet a soda you didn’t file a single bug report.

That’s the minimum first step if you want to contribute to the improvement of those issues.

I don’t see how that’s true. The main point of AppImage is it ‘just works’ on any distro. If you have one primary place to distribute them to any distro - it’s still meeting AppImage’s vision.

So what’s the ‘best’ way now?

Hi! I sincerely want to thank you for your well thought out response. I apologize if the word troll came off wrong. I probably should have used a better descriptor. My primary goal was to be a voice FOR enterprise distros at home - because I saw mostly posts from people who probably aren’t professional sysadmins and have never even tried an enterprise distro.

I fully concede on the VERY new hardware being a challenge for RHEL, an Ubuntu LTS or similar. I’m unfortunately not in a situation where I can afford that problem (kids and daycare costs) so it’s fallen off my radar. I do occasionally run into it at work with research groups that just buy the latest/fastest gaming hardware without checking with IT (we would generally steer them towards workstation/data center grade hardware instead of gaming hardware…not applicable to this discussion for home use). If somehow I could acquire something with new enough hardware to have that problem I’d probably use Fedora on it (so I could just modify my Ansible to work with both), and wait for current Fedora to become RHEL and then that hardware would become RHEL for the rest of it’s lifetime. Mainly - the huge number of constant updates and the every 6 month big updates on Fedora are just too much hassle for me.

On gaming and the other comparisons about improvements on newer packages: I do agree with you. My personal approach has just moved to use what is “tried and tested” and “good enough”. It’s a pretty common approach for sysadmins to let other early adopters find all of the bugs in new stuff. For example: I’m excited about bcachefs, but when I installed Fedora Rawhide just to test it after the recent 6.7 release - I found it largely NOT ready for anything I would need to trust (commands that return the console, but no indication that they did nothing for example - doesn’t give me a good feeling about putting all of my family photos on it until it matures). For now, I’ll still use XFS for small systems and ZFS for large systems or where I need send/receive.

All of that said: I acknowledge these are preferences and my approach, not a " right" way. I do still think it’s a valid approach for some who wants less updates and a more stable config if they’re happy with “fast enough” and less potential for update breakage.

Thank you again for being respectful and detailed in your response. Cheers!

How do you copy/paste to/from xterm?

Good time to install Linux and switch for good. You’ll save thousands of dollars over your lifetime if you stop buying Apple.

Sincerely, a former mac user from 1999-2016

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

This isn’t true since Dec 2021.

‘Best for what?’ is the issue with this never-ending pointless discussion.

RHEL is a fantastic distro… For some things. It’s also a horrible distro… For other things.

I hate them because they make Ubuntu useless for a desktop in an enterprise environment. Snaps have a bug where they will NOT open with a network home directory, which is common for a business … And now they’ve made Firefox snap only.

So for a business environment: you can’t even open the included web browser. WTF?

Do you understand now?