Red Hat Enterprise Linux

“We pay good money for their highest support tier and they are almost always the latest to bring a needed update.”

“Red Hat patching slowness and upgrades from major version to next were reasons I gave up after 16 years using their distributions”

“The upgrade mechanism on a typical Linux distribution is _even more_ gloriously simple”

“Red Hat still makes a lot of sense as a successor to the earlier RISC-based Unixes”

“RHEL was huge, Middleware made relevant products, and OpenShift was born.”

“I have had way more issues provoked on RHEL-compatibles by RHEL's Frankenstein backporty kernel”

“Red Hat determined this path in 2001, when it started pivoting to enterprise customers only.”

“RedHat has a bad habit of dropping support for things not because they need maintenance but because they're just old.”

“At that time, Debian and Red Hat installs were super-easy compared to Solaris.”

“Upstream microarchitecture mandates threatened to abruptly obsolete thousands of functional, purpose-built control nodes.”

“RHEL was the most stable alternative I could think of when her Windows computer stopped being reliable.”

“Red Hat is putting actual significant software engineering into their offerings”

“the free version exists at the sufferance of IBM, a company not well known for being motivated by keeping tech enthusiasts happy”

“RHEL is so stable, even a first time parent can use it.”

“I think that SUSE and RH can definitely work well in a fairly secure setting as needed.”

“RHEL has support for SOC2 requirements. RHEL is also very nice in general”

“I would say any of Manjaro, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RH and many more.”

“RHEL is definitely the most stable major distribution.”

“giving the benefits of corporate without any real downsides”

“That's valueable in teams, less so when you are solo and iterating quickly.”

“legalese restrictions on Redhat/Ubuntu etc when you want to download , stating the various US gov laws/sanctions that they follow”

“by far the most commonly deployed Linux variant among US Enterprise orgs”

“The only real player that charges "enough" to have a "absolutely zero tolerance for base OS breakage" approach to OS development is Red Hat.”

“If Red Hat's own OS in their parent company's standard config ain't good enough for them, then that seems like a problem they should be hard at work fixing.”

“you'll need to buy RHEL or something and rework stuff, which is more expensive than windows.”

“You just need to roll out a enterprise-grade distribution like red hat.”

“Rocky, Alma, Oracle Enterprise Linux, etc exist because of the hard work and money spent by Red Hat.”

“I have traditionally worked on "Enterprise" Linux where RHEL is the standard”

“Backporting is inherently messy, you can introduce new bugs (including security bugs) while trying to transplant fixes”

“RHEL does a much better job than most due to the nature of the company/ products.”

“That's why, RHEL for example, has such a long support lifecycle.”

“and to a lesser extent RedHat, I trust the developers not to do that”

“enterprises would choose the more stable RHEL”

“for RedHat the long term support always ends up being "I hope I don't work here anymore when we eventually do have to upgrade"”

“Their patches broke applications several times resulting in having to hold them back for months for it to be fixed.”

“begin to appreciate operating systems where their APIs and stuff get sort of frozen in time”

“RedHat backports security fixes into the original code”

“Only Arch and RedHat (if you can get passed the paywall) have anything that comes close to the FreeBSD Handbook.”

“several European countries ... have many offices that are already long time Red Hat (and other) users”

“I want something ultra-stable and long lived.”