Comment by awill
7 years ago
The obvious alternative would be Ubuntu. The LTS releases are alternatives to RHEL/CentOS. The others are Fedora alternatives.
However, Red Hat is _far_ more than RHEL. They actually build a ton of OSS that's used in RHEL and elsewhere. Ubuntu does little more than repackage Debian. That's not a criticism. They package well, and they know how to polish. But there's no replacement for Red Hat as a company.
It's so weird because as a long time fedora user I absolutely detest Ubuntu. Can't stand how bloated it's become.
Try vanilla Debian. I really don't get the fascination with Ubuntu - modern Debian does all the same things, and in many cases it does it better (saner defaults, less opinionated).
And if one really needs a "one click out of the box" desktop distro, then Mint.
My guess is that people tend to favour the OS they ‘grew up’ with.
Ubuntu made big inroads on the desktop in the early 2000’s, and now those people are running their own infrastructure.
you say opionated like it's a bad thing. Opinionated is exactly why I use Fedora.
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Mint is based on Ubuntu. There is a version of Mint based on Debian but that is experimental.
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That's why we have Debian!
Obviously Debian always will be there...
OpenSuse, they've shown an ability to deal with corporate buyouts and survive. They also continue to support the open source community.