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Good points. With macos, you need to buy the hardware, and the hardware locks you out of using Linux lately. You also have to spend like crazy on pre-upgrades
by jammygit 8y ago
Good points.
With macos, you need to buy the hardware, and the hardware locks you out of using Linux lately. You also have to spend like crazy on pre-upgrades since everything is soldered in. Then they fight tooth and nail to keep 3rd party repair from being viable, so the apple store says you need a fully new machine and yet the guy down the street can fix it for $700 (would be less but everything is soldered). The machines and os are great, but the other stuff is a buzz kill.
With red hat, I'm not sure its up to date enough for desktop use - dedoimedo likes to talk up his centos install but he doesn't actually recommend it. I'm going to look at red hat one day for production.
- type0 8y agoFor desktop I would say SUSE is the way to go. You can get different levels of support. Much more worth it than Windows license - which is the price you pay to get Microsoft stickers on your machine (and to have their spyware on). Calling MS support was the worst experience ever for me. You shouldn't really use RHEL as a desktop OS (they even dropped KDE recently). On servers if you have the money RHEL is the best you can get.
- jammygit 8y agoI've never looked into SUSE. Could you elaborate on what they offer? All I know about them is that they are one of the really old enterprise distros and got purchased recently.