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

  • jollyrogue
    2·
    10 months ago

    Except CentOS/RHEL. RH doesn’t build the kernels with btrfs support.

      • jollyrogue
        1·
        10 months ago

        They don’t have any devs to support it. The one dev who an idea about btrfs left for Oracle, from what I’ve read.

        Btrfs is rather nice in the correct scenarios, and lack of btrfs is one reason I’m moving away from CentOS servers.

      • biribiri11
        1·
        10 months ago

        It was available as a technology preview in RHEL 6 and 7, but dropped in 8. There apparently wasn’t much demand for it, and the reputation of BTRFS isn’t exactly synonymous with the image of reliability Red Hat strives for. There’s also the idea of maintenance and support burdens, and Red Hat themselves have launched their own stab at a fs with an integrated volume manager called Stratisd, though IBM supposedly absorbed the team that was working on it for their own products.

        • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Just in time for Fedora to use it by default and create some interest. I get the maintenance burden though, RHEL patches their kernel like crazy. They still use XFS as default which I think is pretty unique at this point.