@bzImage For desktops/laptops my goto is https://ubuntu-mate.org/. For servers, I still use Rocky 9, a RHEL based distro, but I've been happy with Ubuntu servers as well. The ubiquity of Ubuntu just makes it easy to search for solutions to anything you encounter.
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On my Desktop, I switched to Manjaro (Arch-based) from Mint a few years ago. Works like a charm and I like the rolling release model. On servers, Ubuntu, Debian or SUSE might be a good choice.
There are several options. Alma/Rocky, Fedora, Debian, BSD, just to name a few.
Debian.
For all my non-compliant, non-supported hosts I started using Fedora CoreOS quite successfully.
If you package your applications as containers, you should have a very easy time with it. It's based off ostree, which means a couple of things:
- immutable (so not easy to break, I guess?)
- atomic upgrades, which means you upgrade in a single step
- atomic and full rollbacks, which means if an upgrade breaks your host, you can rollback to the exact previous version booted simply by choosing it from grub
- still based on rpm, so you will still have a grasp of it, even though many things are completely different
- other benefits I forgot, I'm sure :)
All with the added benefit that once you go towards containers you can change your distro with minimal effort, so there's that.
Personal and general purpose: KDE Neon (yeah yeah)
Servers: IDK, now. Probably going to check out SUSE.
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I use Ubuntu for everything (including at work, tens of thousands machines) and it's great
I use Ubuntu for everything (including at work, tens of thousands machines) and it’s great
If RHEL-based is no longer an option for OP, how would of all things Ubuntu be the alternative?
Debian's pretty good, but you can always use RHEL with a free account too
Devuan over Debian for stability and speed.