I may switch my company's computers from Kubuntu over to Rocky Linux... over time of course. Tell me if that's a bad idea! DaVinci Resolve Studio is the single most important application we use and every other application supports Rocky fine or is a Flatpak. I would love to hear other's takes!
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@micahbp What is your overall footprint, and does this apply to servers as well?
Otherwise, I would recommend taking a look at AlmaLinux. The community is very friendly and responsive, and the distribution focuses on ABI compatibility with RHEL. This provides the freedom to make slight modifications (bringing disabled drivers back, applying bug fixes outside of Red Hat's cadence) all while not breaking application and library compatibility.
Realistically any Red Hat family distribution will work for your scenario, be it RHEL, CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, etc.
@omenos Good thoughts! I appreciate the input. Can't really justify $2K just yet, but going RHEL down the road is our most likely future. I'll check out Alma though! Thanks again! That or Rocky is probably the direction we'll start moving to.
@micahbp If you can swing it, six seats of RHEL Workstation will run you about $2k per year. Less if the two general purpose laptops won't be running DCCs.
Knowing that everything will Just Work™️ 99.99% of the time regardless of what anyone else is doing can be worth the spend. There's the added benefit of the desktop and graphics team being fairly hungry for users and feedback, so you can help guide their decision making via feature requests and workload demonstrations.