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[-] lena@gregtech.eu 14 points 2 days ago

On the server...? Isn't RHEL used primarily on servers?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

Yes and no. Fedora is the upstream of RHEL, and like Fedora there are both workstation and server editions. The relationship is similar to RHEL being the LTS of Fedora but not quite the same. A lot of governments and enterprises that have switched to Linux for workstations are using RHEL.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

If that counts as use of RHEL: All workstations of our institute were running CentOS.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

There's desktop RHEL, we used to run a CAD software on RHEL or SUSE

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I know there is. It's just very seldomly used.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

It may not be home user choice, but in enterprise CAD PLM it is. Out of all the Desktop Distros, only SUSE and RHEL were supported so you had to pick one.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not even talking just home use. I actually work for Red Hat. Granted I work in the public sector so what I see might be skewed, but I rarely ever see anyone use the desktop version.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, I'm sure there are segments that only use server stuff instead of workstations. I'm on the other end I only deal with desktop, as we have IT for server Stuff

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

What's funny is even internally we don't use RHEL desktop. When I first stared our CSB (Corporate Standard Build) was RHEL 7. These days it is Fedora.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's interesting, is it because Fedora has more recent packages

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I assume that's part of it. It might be because most consultants wiped their company issued laptops and installed Fedora. Maybe they figured they should just give the people what they want.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Long-term support and distro-branched tool chains are a boon to the workstation too. And all of lennarts cancer has been in support of dynamic networking changes and wifi devices; no overlap with a server, but they include that shit at every turn. So obviously they're primarily geared for laptops and servers are a target of opportunity -- and their decline in stability over 3-4 distro versions just backs that up.

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