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At this point I just point people to Silverblue or a variant. It's got SELinux, flatpaks, atomic updates and corporate sponsorship. I'm not so wild about Redhat

At this point I just point people to Silverblue or a variant. It's got SELinux, flatpaks, atomic updates and corporate sponsorship. I'm not so wild about Redhat these days, but Silverblue is honestly probably the best from the standpoint of being secure, stable, robust, generally well put-together out of the box, and very difficult for a noob to screw up. I don't love saying this, but it's true.

cassianoleal 6mo ago
> and corporate sponsorship That may be a good reason. Corporate oversight is one of the main reasons the other OSs are so terrible at prioritising the user.
- helterskelter 6mo ago
  I think you meant to say that may not be a good reason. If so... I'd normally be inclined to agree with you but RedHat so far has taken care of their users at least (I'm not sure it will be that way forever) by giving the benefits of corporate without any real downsides. SELinux by default is a huge plus all by itself. I love community supported distros, but I've used Linux on desktop and server since around 2000 and I can handle some issues. The proverbial non-tech spouse on the other hand doesn't care that there's a one-line fix to their problem, to them it's just broken and now they want a mac.
  - cassianoleal 6mo ago
    > I think you meant to say that may not be a good reason. Huh, you're right. Maybe I should start dedicating more brain cycles to tasks on the foreground vs everything else going on in the background. :D > RedHat so far has taken care of their users at least RHEL was always more work on the server than other distros IMO. Fedora improved after Red Hat let go of it and is currently a very nice and polished distro. It's not for me but it's a fine distro. Red Hat is now an IBM subsidiary. They seem to be maintaining some of their pre-acquisition ethos but it's probably just a matter of time until they become full-blown "no one ever got fired for buying Red Hat".

cassianoleal 6mo ago

> and corporate sponsorship That may be a good reason. Corporate oversight is one of the main reasons the other OSs are so terrible at prioritising the user.

helterskelter 6mo ago
I think you meant to say that may not be a good reason. If so... I'd normally be inclined to agree with you but RedHat so far has taken care of their users at least (I'm not sure it will be that way forever) by giving the benefits of corporate without any real downsides. SELinux by default is a huge plus all by itself. I love community supported distros, but I've used Linux on desktop and server since around 2000 and I can handle some issues. The proverbial non-tech spouse on the other hand doesn't care that there's a one-line fix to their problem, to them it's just broken and now they want a mac.
- cassianoleal 6mo ago
  > I think you meant to say that may not be a good reason. Huh, you're right. Maybe I should start dedicating more brain cycles to tasks on the foreground vs everything else going on in the background. :D > RedHat so far has taken care of their users at least RHEL was always more work on the server than other distros IMO. Fedora improved after Red Hat let go of it and is currently a very nice and polished distro. It's not for me but it's a fine distro. Red Hat is now an IBM subsidiary. They seem to be maintaining some of their pre-acquisition ethos but it's probably just a matter of time until they become full-blown "no one ever got fired for buying Red Hat".