Returning to Linux

[David Johnson]

Years ago I used Red Hat on a desktop and laptop before they wend enterprise all the way.  I'm reaching the end of my working career and will have time to experiment.  Since Red Hat is the one I was most familiar with, which distribution would y'all recommend to prevent me from starting all over?

[Jeremiah Bess]

Welcome back to the Linux community! If you like Red Hat, Fedora was spun off to make a free/open source variant: https://fedoraproject.org/

Ask 20 people what distro they recommend, you'll get 50 responses. I love Linux Mint Debian Edition: https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

It's best to just run distros you are interested in through a Virtual Machine (like VirtualBox or VMWare) for a while, and see which fits your needs/preferences. Then you can go full-send on installing where/how you want.

Jeremiah Bess

On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM David Johnson <svtve...@gmail.com> wrote:

Years ago I used Red Hat on a desktop and laptop before they wend enterprise all the way.  I'm reaching the end of my working career and will have time to experiment.  Since Red Hat is the one I was most familiar with, which distribution would y'all recommend to prevent me from starting all over?

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[David Johnson]

I plan to go full on with a laptop and keep my windows pc around so my wife can use it and I can use my Quicken.  I understand everyone has their favorite distros, but I was hoping not to have to learn the nuances of a different distro.  Thanks for the feedback!

[Chris Miller]

If you’re working on a full machine and not a virtual one you can use a tool called Ventoy[1] to make getting Linux install images onto your installation media easy. Consider setting up a separate partition to keep your files on separate from the OS partition so you don’t have to copy things around between reinstalls.

Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora are some of the most popular distros at the moment. Keep in mind that most of these offer “spins” or variants with a different desktop environment if you don’t like their flagship. I also keep an eye on elementaryOS, since they do lots of interesting work as well.

[1]: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

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[Jeremiah Garmatter]

David,

Fedora, CentOS, and Rocky Linux are all similar to RedHat. However, I'm pretty sure you can get 5 or so RedHat workstation installs with a free RedHat account.