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Modest laptop arriving, what new Linux distribution should I try?
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Try alma
You would recommend Alma for a daily driver laptop?
alma and rocky are the new 'clones' of rhel that were spawned from the death of centos when redhat radically changed its mission in ~ 2020-21. they have most the pros and cons of running rhel itself.
I'm aware of the history, but I've never run any of them.
I just installed it on a workstation. I'm mostly used to seeing it. Headless but it looks pretty nice with KDE. Alma is a fedora branch and RHEL is generally stable and just works.
Why not base Fedora? A lot of people are saying that with default gnome. I've never even tried yum, so either would be something new.
Yum/dnf is easy it works just like apt get
Ie: yum install htop
As for why Alma, it's what I'm most familiar with coming from a Centos background. And from what I remember and can tell Alma seems much more stable than centos. While still not constantly changing things every 6months like fedora does
Honestly, that is compelling. Thanks
Okay, added to the list.