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Experienced Linux users, what are you using?
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33 years with Linux (kernel 1.2.13, slackware). Worked at a distro. Worked in OS security -- Unix and enterprise Linux. I helped build United Linux out of the dismembered corpse suse kicked over the fence as 'collaboration'.
Because of the validation issue in the .deb package format and others, I'm on a mixture of Rocky and Nobara.
I'm subscribed to cloudLinux's tuxcare enterprise updates for some older stuff, and I can't recommend it enough. It's excellent; and if almalinux releases their sLTS distro release and actually covers it for 25 years, that will be such a coup.
I'm worried at the direction Linux has been taken by IBM and I hope it can be unfucked one day. I miss the reliable, fast boots and uncomplicated tooling before this systemd shitshow.
That's why after almost 20 years on arch Linux I just moved to void Linux, mostly for the idea of a proper init, and nice simple and much faster booting.
I've heard of nobara, rocky and slackware, never used any of them, never even heard of the other ones you have mentioned.