Quick Question for DevOps Engineers

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Runnergeek@reddit

Mostly it doesn’t really matter. Pick any of the major distros and go nuts. Don’t put too much energy into it as there is plenty to learn most of which will be identical. It’s almost like asking what brand of car you should learn to drive, GM or Ford.

The two I see the most are RHEL and Ubuntu. You can get RHEL for free with a developer subscription but CentOS Stream is a great option.

The desktop experience is less important than setting up services and managing a headless system. You should learn to do everything via command line and then do it with automation (Ansible)

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kalinrj@reddit

This, but I'd swap Ubuntu with Debian.

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SurfRedLin@reddit

Yes go debian. Most i know enteprises try to switch away from ubuntu.

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victxrlarixs@reddit

At my work we are using CentOS

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SadGovernment9779@reddit (OP)

You're talking about CentOS Stream or Rocky ig

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carlwgeorge@reddit

CentOS Stream is the distro from the CentOS Project, and is what people are likely referring to if they say they use CentOS in 2026.

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SadGovernment9779@reddit (OP)

CentOS isn't dead?? 😭

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victxrlarixs@reddit

Obviously, everything is CLI.

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Scoutron@reddit

I’m not sure you need the opinion of a dev ops engineer for this lol. Thats like asking a NASCAR driver what commuter car you should get

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SadGovernment9779@reddit (OP)

😭🫪Fr I need opinion of you all because my windows is Crashing so much rn...I want to switch asap

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Scoutron@reddit

You can switch, I’m just telling you that you probably don’t need a professionals opinion. However, as a professional, I can tell you to play it safe and just do Mint or Fedora, two very supported and friendly distros.

However, if your windows is crashing and you cannot figure out why, it’s very possible the same thing happens on Linux and you end up stranded

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OkCraft8595@reddit

I use debian for anything at home related to a VM or Container, but to work with it, I have a mini PC with endeavorOS, but just bc is arch based and I love to say that thingy, even knowing that any of my friends don't give a $h1t of what arch is. I have to admit that this computer also has a Win partition, bc there's always something required to run in there. In my opinion the package manager and the UI part are the most important parts when choosing a distro, find the ones that make you feel more comfy, I'm sure you'll install several distros before you find the one that fits the best for you, good luck with it 👍

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SadGovernment9779@reddit (OP)

Someone said that Manjaro is user friendly and have good GUI

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OkCraft8595@reddit

You'll not know until you test it

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SadGovernment9779@reddit (OP)

Yeah truee 😭

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delamon@reddit

Any major would do. You want something popular, so you would not get stuck with weird problems that no one knows about. What is your goal with linux? If it is programming/admin, then debian/ubuntu or red hat centos would be popular choices. If you want to tinker with os itself, then gentoo or arch. arch has lovely wiki.

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