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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.

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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (10 children)

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Not even close

Fedora Rawhide (?) == Opensuse TW

Fedora == Opensuse leap

RHEL == Suse enterprise

The higher ones are a testing ground for the one below, until you get to the actual product, the enterprise distros. They have completely different priorities

Red Hat was also a non-starter because of the lack of gaming functionality.

Unless you're running bleeding edge hardware, you can install the drivers just fine. Enterprise users also need GPUs. Flatpak solves steam in most cases.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Opensuse Leap is built from SUSE Linux Enterprise and then additional packages added (those packages from Opensuse are also available to SUSE), it is not very comparable to Fedora and is more like Rocky Linux. SLE doesn’t have an upstream distribution in the same way Fedora is to RHEL.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

It seems neither of us are correct. According to this, they're both built from TW, but now leap can use those enterprise packages as well. I couldn't find a more recent article. The main reasoning seems to be to allow opensuse users to test sel packages.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Thats an older post, Leap 15.2 i think it said, more recent releases are sharing same SLE binaries, and part of Leap installs is now suse repo for some stuff rather than all from opensuse repo

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