If so, why? and how’s your experience been?

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    AlmaLinux is effectively a downstream of RHEL, so it inherits a lot of RHEL’s pros and cons.

    Nah, it’s been upstream since RHEL locked down. Rocky’s been doing some funky stuff though.

    Towards the end of the life cycle, the packages get very old

    Good thing there’s flatpak, snap, appimage, nix, guix, distrobox, etc. to keep you up to date. The question is then: do you mind if your DE and drivers don’t change for years. And that’s perfectly fine for a lot of people.

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      Nah, it’s been upstream since RHEL locked down. Rocky’s been doing some funky stuff though.

      AlmaLinux mostly ships packages that are maintained by Red Hat for RHEL, which is why I called it effectively a downstream. But maybe we can just agree that they’re related and it’s complicated 😅

      Good thing there’s flatpak, snap, appimage, nix, guix, distrobox, etc. to keep you up to date. The question is then: do you mind if your DE and drivers don’t change for years. And that’s perfectly fine for a lot of people.

      Yes, the situation has certainly improved, especially for GUI applications. But there’s always some trade-offs involved with those alternative packaging options. The nice thing is that you can freely choose if you want such a very-LTS option, or something fresher :)

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        I can say apart from core programs like all of KDE (lol) and some CLI tools I use only Flatpaks now! Distrobox as workaround for RStudio and QGis, Appimage only as a last resort.

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        AlmaLinux mostly ships packages that are maintained by Red Hat for RHEL

        Sure, they’re maintained by Red Hat, but for CentOS and not RHEL, therefore Alma is upstream. It’s really not complicated.