The flaws of distro hopping and asking other people about their OS of choice
Used Debian for a while, but the relatively short life cycle is sub-optimal, as is the situation with drivers sometimes.<p>Eventually just gave up and am now using Ubuntu LTS on all my servers and either Ubuntu or something like Linux Mint on my personal devices - things mostly just work, documentation is abundant and breakages aren&#x27;t too often. My personal advice would be to just pick whatever most other people are using, the best documented and supported option.<p>For when i actually want to get things done in a passable manner, it&#x27;s good enough. The longer EOL is also great, far less churn to deal with, as long as you don&#x27;t need the latest packages.<p>Actually, it&#x27;s why i recently moved all of my container images from Alpine Linux as a base to Ubuntu as a base, about which i wrote on my blog: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kronis.dev&#x2F;articles&#x2F;using-ubuntu-as-the-base-for-all-of-my-containers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kronis.dev&#x2F;articles&#x2F;using-ubuntu-as-the-base-fo...</a><p>Kind of sad that CentOS died the way it did (as a LTS distro, at least) and having to use Oracle Linux in its stead in certain enterprise settings doesn&#x27;t feel great either, though most RPM distros are also vaguely passable. May Rocky Linux fill that niche properly some day and be as abundant as CentOS was.