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Jeff is both an open-source contributor, as well as a fairly popular YouTuber[1]. His more popular repositories are more beginner friendly and not supporting RH
by qmarchi 3y ago
Jeff is both an open-source contributor, as well as a fairly popular YouTuber[1]. His more popular repositories are more beginner friendly and not supporting RHEL means that it's unlikely that new users may end up choosing it as their Distro-of-choice.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/jeffgeerling https://www.youtube.com/c/jeffgeerling
- geerlingguy 3y agoInitially, before 2020, I would often build examples equally for CentOS and Debian (sometimes Ubuntu, if it was a more GUI-heavy thing). After 2020, I slowed introducing CentOS examples, and converted all my CentOS usage to Rocky Linux. At this point, I will not be creating any more examples building on RHEL-like OSes, but I might still maintain some of my examples on Rocky Linux, we'll see.
- 5e92cb50239222b 3y agoI'll second that commenter on your blog — thank you for taking a stance on this. This is much more likely to put some fire under Red Hat's asses than a bunch of no-names like myself whining on internet forums.
- wkat4242 3y agoI doubt hobbyists would have chosen RHEL anyway though :) After all why pay when you can get excellent distros for free?
- ihattendorf 3y agoBut those same hobbyists might eventually get a job at a place where they need to decide between Debian or RHEL, or influence the decision.
- bravetraveler 3y agoAs a RHEL fan, using/preferring it since entering corporate environments forever ago -- I don't think new users are really a concern They've done decently to lock down the sort of places that tell you what's being used, not chosen. I say this with pain on my face, I don't want it going this way