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Redhat is my favorite Linux distro for my workstation. It just works and is rock solid. I wish they had a node locked license option like windows pro workstation,https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-10-pro-for-worksta..., for $300-500 for a major version instead of always having to manage subscriptions.

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When RedHat officially supported a piece of hardware, and your large enterprise software officially supported RedHat, it was a pretty good setup.

Lots of things which are otherwise a mess in Linux just weren't.

Of course much of my experience on this was with things like $10k per seat software on a $5k workstation or similar.

One of the reasons containerization is so popular is poorly supported software (on ubuntu mostly) just being broken and hard to work with combined with a pretty bad way to write and manage packages (apt).

> a pretty bad way to write and manage packages

Cool, good to know this nearly 30 year old conflict is still just as active as ever. Tens of thousands of working DEB packages notwithstanding.

Have you ever written one?

Yes, have done DEB and RPM and Docker and Makefiles with `make install` and IMO the differences for a packager are pretty minimal and not worth having a holy war over.

Anyone smart enough to manage one format can probably manage any of them.

Don't you struggle with old/obsolete packages? Stuff like Docker, Wayland, but not only, need recent kernels and libraries.

What hardware do you use it on

At work I have a dell t7920 desktop. At home I have a custome built desktop from 2014 with an Intel i7. Works like a charm.

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