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Arch, if I want to revive the 20-something geek in me. I’ve been using Debian in prod for very long time, but recently switched to Centos (and RHEL). No idea when or why I got so radicalized against Centos/RHEL that I didn’t even want to try it for years, but after working with it for a few months, I’m absolutely in love. When I started using Linux years ago, I had this feeling of order, that it just made sense. But it died with all the bloat and faction wars in the community on how things should be done (e.g network management). With RHEL, it all makes sense again. I know what’s going on and I am in control.


CentOS isn't the CentOS of previous years, which may have something to do with it. IBM killed it and now it's some sort of Fedora stream type thing that just reused the name?


What features of RHEL do you prefer over Debian?


Package management is much better, and the documentation is phenomenal.




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