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

  • @[email protected]English
    7•9 months ago

    RHEL at work.

    Not having Kate or Okular is a pain.
    Need to download cmake for certain cases.
    Subscription Manager is a pain.

    Air gap means I can’t make do with snaps.

    I would also gripe about not having KDE, but that would be unfair and off topic in this case.

    • andersOP
      2•9 months ago

      @ulterno
      For which cases did you need cake for example?

      My base OS is Fedora Kinoite and I’m considering have AlmaLinux in a podman container for some applications and tools. Replacing it every year because fedora is eol is too often in my opinion.

      Hasn’t Kate been replaced by an upgraded Kwrite or is Kate still maintained?

      • @[email protected]English
        3•9 months ago

        For which cases did you need cake for example?

        Since you asked, I don’t usually need cake, since I don’t do parties, but I might occasionally buy a piece and eat it.

        Hasn’t Kate been replaced by an upgraded Kwrite or is Kate still maintained?

        kate and kwrite are both maintained and usable side by side on the same system.
        In terms of features… kwrite : kate :: notepad : notepad++. Kinda… kwrite is still much more featurefull than notepad.
        They have KDE Frameworks dependencies, which makes it non-trivial to install on RHEL when you can only access the local base and EPEL repo.

    • @zenharbinger
      1•9 months ago

      Yeah, basically your DE will be the default of the distro. I’ve never had good luck with KDE above Centos 7. But I’m good with Gnome. I’m not saying it’s not possible, but it’s not worth my time and effort personally.