Yeah I started in the Red Hat 2 era, played with all the WMs and DEs, compiled my own kernel a few times. After a point I had too much going on in my life to tinker with my distro. My needs are simple, I just need a terminal and a package manager.
Snaps have issues sure, but anything is better than the dependency hell of old.
Use what works. It’s really that simple.
According to the first law I cannot allow you to wash that shirt, nor am I allowed, through inaction, to let you wash it elsewhere.
I’m in the Rocky camp too. Before the IBM buyout I would have said CentOS.
My server has a raid1 mdadm boot drive. And an 8 dive raid6 with zfs. It’s been running for 14 years now. The only thing that I haven’t replaced over it’s lifetime is the chassis. In fact the proc let out the magic smoke a few weeks ago, after some new parts it’s still going strong.
Assuming MBAs can do math might be a mistake. I’ve worked on an MBA pet project that squandered millions in worker time and opportunity cost to save 30k mrc…