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For a desktop, I've had a wonderful experience with Fedora Workstation. They're up-to-date while remaining stable, have a policy of working with upstream, and don't do any real customization to KDE/GNOME.

I am mildly peeved at the whole CentOS debacle but wouldn't mind running Fedora on a personal server.

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Just use Rocky Linux or Alma Linux it’s basically what Cent was. Unless you’re running anything super insanely mission critical CentOS stream would still be fine for your uses, and if you need something THAT highly available support might be worth while anyways in an enterprise environment.

Yeah if you're using it for a real server then Rocky/Alma/Stream/RHEL. For a personal server I find Fedora fine, since my local packages will match my server's.

>For a personal server I find Fedora fine, since my local packages will match my server's.

Absolutely. I also use Squid[0] as a proxy for updates[1] which, after initial download for one of the dozens of my Fedora boxes, caches the updates, reducing bandwidth usage and (more importantly) speeding up updates significantly.

[0] https://serverfault.com/questions/837291/squid-and-caching-o...

[1] https://linuxiac.com/how-to-use-yum-dnf-command-with-a-proxy...

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