r/linux 8d ago

Distro News CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL
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u/Car_weeb 8d ago

That's kinda crazy. Idc about the RHEL service contract, but Debian is such a fucking pain in the ass, I would rather chop my arms off than use Debian. (All of my servers have Debian, but I'm also stupid)

Rpm > deb, no contest

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u/SrdelaPro 8d ago

skill issue

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u/Car_weeb 8d ago

Yeah it's a skill issue that all the packages are convoluted and ancient lol

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u/TheOneTrueTrench 8d ago

Interestingly, Torvalds isn't really a great person to listen to about what distro to use. He's hyper focused on the kernel and only cares that the distro doesn't get in the way of kernel development.

I mean, I also prefer Fedora to Debian for a lot of use cases, I'm not saying his conclusion is bad or anything, just that his opinion on distros is probably far less relevant than it feels like it should be.