Thoughts on recommending Alma Linux for new users?
Fedora is a “leading edge” distro and will commonly break people’s workflows with early adoption of newer tech which new users certainly don’t want. Alma seems to be a fine distro to recommend, as it is more traditional and appears to be well supported and funded.
Out of any of the RHEL-like distros, I think CentOS stream would be my preference.
But there is another, possibly better solution, in the context of desktop. For those who don’t like the leading-edge-ness or release cadence of Fedora (Personally, its my favorite part about Fedora) it is not uncommon to adopt a strategy of trailing Fedora by one release. E.g. when Fedora 40 is released, you upgrade from 38 to 39, when 41 is released you upgrade from 39 to 40.
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Distros like Alma Linux, Debian, etc. tend to have more broken software experiences on desktop and less support for modern hardware in new computers people buy.
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