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AlmaLinux OS
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Reader supplied reviews for AlmaLinux OS
Average rating
8.0 from 63 review(s)
Version: 9.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-06-15
Votes: 5
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We've been quite happy so far with AlmaLinux OS. Being prior CentOS7 consumers (yes, the old one), we just needed an OS that's stable for our VPSs and maintained. All the package upgrades going from CentOS -> AlmaLinux were very nice as well.
We're running low powered (cheap) VPSs and everything seems to work fine: Apache, php, fail2ban on a 1cpu, 1GB system w/ a 2Gig swap. The move from AlmaLinux 8x -> 9x was smooth with few issues.
Our only issue is that we probably need a little more powerful VPS for php and so fail2ban blocks the 'bots a little quicker. We see no need to change the OS when migrating to a new VPS.
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Version: 9.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-06-08
Votes: 5
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This is a solid Redhat-based Linux distro for professional or hobbyist use, keeping in mind that you will probably need to do some customization after installation. It was able to install on an older laptop that both Windows and Debian were unable to install on due to unknown isses with the previous installation's formatting of the drive (purely software-related). It successfully wiped the drive and installed.
If you don't like Gnome or the limited number of apps available in the default repos, then be prepared to use the terminal to add more repos and install other desktop environments. Several Almalinux repos can be added through the software app's GUI, however the EPEL repo isn't among those most desktop users will probably want that added. I also suggest installing flatpak, for access to many other apps people commonly want.
Almalinux isn't supposed to be an exact duplicate of Redhat, but it is binary compatible. With that in mind, I'd recommend they create a Cinnamon desktop version since that's closer to the Windows experience that many users are comfortable with. Gnome is what Redhat uses, but it's always been too much of a tablet-like OS for me to use every day. I'd also suggest they add the Fedora EPEL in by default if they're not going to replicate those apps in their own repos. It's otherwise a great, very stable and secure distro that I've got running on 2 PCs, after years of using Debian/Ubuntu and their variants. I highly recommend it to anyone open to the idea of a little customization after installation.
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Version: 9.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-03
Votes: 3
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This distro is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, basically. It is loaded with professionalism and polish. Be sure to go into the Software utility and hit the drop down menu for adding needed repositories.
I am using the default Gnome DE, tweaked with the "Tweak" tool in Apps, and tweaked more with Gnome Extensions (including my favorite, very robust "Just Perfection" extension).
You can do anything you want to do with this, and it is a very pleasant experience right from the beginning. I used to have a negative attitude toward Gnome, but that has changed now (this shipped with version 40).
Alma installs just like Fedora and Red Hat, using the Anaconda installer which presents you right away with the whole page of choices. I always start with the Network program, then on to Time and Date, then the installation destination area I want the distro on. After that you can decide which Alma Linux environment you want, "Work Station," "Development," "Server," etc.
Alma Anaconda moved a lot of info and apps etc quickly and was ready to go with both User and Root accounts I'd set up in about six minutes.
It rebooted into a default Gnome desktop and was ready for my customisations. Everything is working as expected and is FAST and glitch-free.
An easy "10."
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Version: 9.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-04-30
Votes: 6
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I was a Centos user and changed by curiosity to Alma Linux. Not that Centos is bad (it is actually really good), but to my knowing has no pure KDE version.
Alma Linux has and so I went for the KDE version.
Really happy with this choice. The extra Synergy repo does add value as I like Warpinator, which is included in Synergy.
I am ashtonished by the speed of this distro. Everything works spot on on Wayland, which is really good.
As for now I do not need Nvidia drivers.
I would have liked a more up-to-date kernel, but what the 5.14 works really well.
My idea is not the change a winning team, so I trust Alma Linux this kernel is capabel and safe.
So, I think Alma Linux is the best version for those home users searching quality over quantity. The only valid competitor being OpenSuse Leap. Opensuse however in a way forces to install Nvidia, which is a problem with my 470-driver if I want to use Wayland.
With Alma I am not forced in any way to install Nvidia so I can continue on Wayland-Nouveau.
So, yes, I invite people to use Alma, professional and home user alike. It is a top distro.
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Version: 9.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-11-25
Votes: 0
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Installed workstation, AlmaLinux 9.3, gnome desktop, installed EPEL as described here: www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-epel-on-almalinux/ . I also enabled Flatpak orcacore.com/quick-setup-for-flatpak-on-almalinux-9-and-rhel-9/ . With that, I installed every bit of software I wanted. I only needed FlatPak for Spotify. Gnome had some nice improvements that with the pdf doc viewer. I have an older desktop with a Gen 4, i3 processor, 16G RAM, SSDs and it's plenty fast. My laptop is running Fedora 39. Happy with both. Just like to have different life cycles in case something goes horribly wrong.
AlmaLinux 9.3 (Shamrock Pampas Cat)
Gnome: 40.4.0
Wayland
Why only 9? I tried to installing the KDE Plasma live image and it would't boot after the upgrade to 9.3. I suspect something related to KDE Plasma display, graphics, wayland. I forgot to check if Xorg worked.
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Version: 8.8
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-15
Votes: 2
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lite and simple to use: An open source, community owned and managed, free enterprise Linux distribution. Focusing on long-term stability and providing a powerful production level platform. It can serve as an alternative to RHEL's downstream Linux operating system after CentOS stops maintenance (changed to rolling updates) and inherits the open source and free features of the original CentOS.
I have tried asking questions on AlmaLinux and RockyLinux, and AlmaLinux's response is quite effective, making RockyLinux easy to overlook; I originally had a liking for RockyLinux, but later found out that the official mioors couldn't list all CN images, and no one gave feedback
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Version: 9.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-02
Votes: 2
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AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.2
Use: Desktop
Desktop Environment: Gnome
Architecture: x86_64
Hardware: HP Z230 workstation, 16GiB RAM and assorted SSDs
I have been using AlmaLinux 9.2 as a desktop operating system for about a month.
During this time it has impressed as a very stable operating system.
Peformance is snappy and seems a little quicker with an ext4 root file system, rather than the default xfs.
AlmaLinux 9.2 was installed without any issues using a boot iso and a network install.
Note: AlmaLinux seems to have a similar issue to recent versions of Fedora, where the installation media won't boot in UEFI mode on some older motherboards.
A good selection of desktop applications can be obtained from:
* AlmaLinux repositories;
* EPEL and RPMFusion third party repos; and
* Flatpaks.
As AlmaLinux is 1:1 binary compatible with RHEL, documentation is not an issue.
The caliber of the companies backing Alma Linux is reassuring, as is CERN and Fermilab's choice of AlmaLinux as their standard linux distribution.
I also like that AlmaLinux is community-driven and that the AlmaLinux OS Foundation is a non-profit organisation.
AlmaLinux does everything I need a desktop operating system to do and does them well.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-21
Votes: 0
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Very good distro, but I have found many issues in tradicional installation procedure, however using the live image it performed very well, recognizing my notebook hardware and installed without any error. I'm going to use for desktop not server, but I hope the lack of packages can be supplied by flatpak, snap, gnu guix, appimage and docker apps.
I'm using Almalinux because I do not want to install and reinstall my linux every 2 or 3 years. Most distros haven`t a good end of life and Rolling Releases breaks to much. I have used CentOS8 for some months and it was amazing, management of system resources are expectacular, too much different from ubuntu that eats all of your resources.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-07
Votes: 0
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Downloaded and installed both versions, KDE and Gnome. Both without any issues whatsoever. Even found how to add repositories on their Wiki page. Solid, sturdy, and quite beautiful to boot. Will use this for quite a while I think as it was solid. Adding Flatpaks was easy, as was updating, and customizing. I should say I am quite familiar with Red Hat and Fedora, so this was a no brainer for me. So far so good on two machines, both DE. I hope this project will be around quite a while. I like Rocky Linux too, but not too keen on the name, i get why, but just rubs me wrong. Alma (soul) makes sense. Love it.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 5
Date: 2023-02-04
Votes: 0
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Overall I really like the 9.1 version, fast and responsive desktop! Well structured and easy to manage. All hardware was recognized and the installer worked very well. EPEL and RPMfusion installed without fuss.
But on the negative side ... I"m not pleased with Flathub, flatpaks and Freedesktop.org. I don"t like the idea of portable apps. It"s a single source that could inject problems in general.
The fact that it"s a workhorse of a desktop and simple to navigate is a great way to get your work dome.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-30
Votes: 2
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I'd give it 10 out of 10 if it were a bit easier to manage repos, the system is blazing fast much on the contrary of the comments here I've read and to be honest it is way better than cent.
I'd also love to have any automated gui backup apps added to the default installs.
Ubuntu has some nice approach to disabling the noveau package, it's about time some automation is added in that sense as well.
The Gnome desktop is a bit clunky as it is in any distro but you can change that fairly easy.
I'm relatively new to these variants of cent but overall they've done a hell of a great job! 9/10.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-01
Votes: 0
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Alma is slow and bloated, my system has crashed numerous times while I’m use, and even twice hitting up my computer, it would restart after the logo would pop up, just like windows does in a boot loop. The transfer tool does not work properly and has crashed my system to where I needed to repair my boot loader, I don’t know why it did that, but it feels like to me rushing out another version just to get a newer number or a point with a number is not good. This release feels pretty buggy and I don’t trust it to be a good CentOS based distro.
I don’t recommend this.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-12-31
Votes: 1
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I am using the 9.1 live XFCE version for desktops and the minimal server version for my servers. There are no negatives here, and the plus was the ease of installation of the Centos Web Panel (CWP) for managing the server. For the desktop, the system is fast and responsive under XFCE. The server is hosting websites and Is running well. The server and desktop systems are stable, and I have no negative issues to report. The Community is active, and it is easy to get information when asking questions. It also runs great on the laptop and has no issues when installing or afterward.
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Version: 9.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-12-27
Votes: 0
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I was hoping this would be a good community-based server OS and a successor to CentOS, but I was wrong, I’ve had some errors, crashes and general instability with this.
Gnome is very resource intensive and bloated. I wish there would be other desktop environments offered with Alma.
It’s a good thing I didn’t migrate everything over to Alma, I did try to transfer a couple files from CentOS to Alma and that failed. I’m going to find another CentOS replacement. That’s the good thing with Linux, if one distro isn’t working well, more than likely, there’s another one to try.
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Version: 9.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-13
Votes: 0
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Best distro I have used in 20 years of Linux, I use it as a stable desktop environment on 2 Think-Pads and and it rocks. No need to worry about the next update breaking everything, plenty of software and even more with the Flatpak enabled.
Just add epel, rpm fusion that along with Flathub and you have everything at your fingertips, welcome to the most stable efficient os that just purs along. Pinch to zoom works flawlessly not like Ubuntu 22.04, I have been a Ubuntu user since 5.04 but this has changed the game for me. I know its touted as a server distro but who says you cant use it as a desktop, hell its even built into the installer "Workstation". Thanks to all who maintain this distro, updates as sent through as soon as there avaialbe upstream.
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Version: 9.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-10-29
Votes: 0
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I've waited to give Alma time to develop before installing but did so with 9.0 onto a problematic Compaq notebook with no problems at all. Some users without previous knowledge of CentOS might be frustrated with a few things such as how to get recognition for external drives but solutions for such issues are easily found and to be honest if they prove difficult to solve a Debian based specific desktop distro would be a better choice. Otherwise Alma is running fine on my hardware, is fast and stable. It certainly scores extra points for the live ISO options and it's the KDE version I ran and installed from. The installer is not difficult, try Arch or Void, but even these are easy enough second time around and not everything uses Calamares. I still fall short of recommending distros designed for server use as desktops, especially for home use, but Alma does fit the bill for a long term stable release that is unlikely to break with the next update.
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Version: 9.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-09-30
Votes: 0
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So I installed Almalinux 9 some months ago. I needed a stable Linux version which can handle all my hardware components including my Supermicro motherboard with Xeon processor, and AMD video card. The most important was my Samsung SCX-4521F scanner-printer that somehow I could not install on any Debian based Linux distro fully. Either I was able to scan but I cannot print or reverse. But everything was OK on Manjaro, Fedora, Opensuse also. Why?
So I began to use Almalinux 9 as a workstation, and until now it is perfect for me. A little bit faster than Opensuse, Manjaro was the fastest, but not the most secure and stable one.
My choosen desktop is Gnome, but I would prefer Cinnamon.Unfortunately on Almalinux 9 there is no solution in the Almalinux forum, where another user also need it without answer. I think that a good Linux distro must be capable to handle the most all of popular desktop versions like Fedora do it for example.
Note: On Cinnamon switching between tasks is easier with using only mouse than do it the same thing on Gnome.
This is why my rating is only 9.
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Version: 9.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-09-29
Votes: 0
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This just keeps getting worse and worse. I’ve had nothing but problems using Alma. Is is very slow, not stable, the community is unhelpful and the devs are non-existent. Don’t expect patches, bug fixes and such to be done with this distro, it’s all a whole mess here. I am tempted to completely drop Red Hat/Red Hat based server distros and just go to Suse’s enterprise product. I would say this distro is even worse than CentOS became when they switched to being a beta testing distro not for the community anymore. Lots of bugs and crashes I’ve experienced too. Did something else better and don’t waste your time here, this is a migraine-inducer dealing with Alma.
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Version: 8.6
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-09-12
Votes: 0
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I have tested AlmaLinux twice in the past several months. Despite installing OK I found a huge deal breaker: it will not recognize a USB flash drive! I don't have time to scour the web and look up what to do to fix that problem which I have NEVER seen while testing dozens of different distros over the past 16 years. It also fails when trying to install and run packages using Flatpak. Rocky Linux installs and works fine with flash drives and Flatpak. With just those two things Rocky does rings around Alma! I simply gfind it impossible to use AlmaLinux at this time. Need I say more?
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Version: 8.6
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-27
Votes: 0
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I like the 8.6 version. Was easy to install, worked using the KDE, GNOME is a lost cause. Based on the 9.0 reviews I'll wait for a while before I upgrade. One more thing, please bring back KmyMoney into a repository some where.
You have to remember that this is just the start of a long run to replace CentOS and it takes time to get warmed up. Liked Alma more then Rocky Linux which was later to the table.
Have to wait on the 9.0 release until it comes up to speed. I like using KDE with Alma.
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Version: 9.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-06-27
Votes: 0
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Yes, I used Almalinux 9 Beta, and it works quite well.
Because I am a very long time Fedora user, I was in know ground, and had no other issue... than documentation.
Installing NGINX usung just dnf, was a breeze : it worked out of the box.
Installing Wordpress over NGINX& MariaDB installing RPM packages with dnf was a pretty bad experience !
I had to rather do a manual install, mostly using the RHEL 9 documentation.
This is a bit unfortunate and it is likely that there are issues with the packages and/or documentation.
It would be great to have a cpanel like install experience to be able to install and configure easily popular CMS's like Wordpress, MediaWilki, Drupal (perhaps more) over SEMP server (NGINX/MariaDB etc...).
Another "Little detail" is GNOME, that I admit I just dislike, and prefer the simpler highly functional MATE GUI environment.
I have not tried to enable it on Alma Linux 9, but woukld suggest that a "spin" with these would be great.
Did I mention Installing Alma Linux 9, using a Ventoy formated USB flash drive now works well.
Previous version of Alama Linux would not install with Ventoy (exfat) formated flash drive, because previous kernels did not support exfat.
Anaconda is still a mediocre (hard to use) Linux Installer, especially for non standard (custom) install, but now I got used to it.
Still an enhanced installer would not hurt, perhaps an upcoming version ?
In any case, congratulations, as it is Alma Linux 9 is a very good alternative to CENTOS, or RHLE ( : go for it !
A.G
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Version: 9.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-27
Votes: 0
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I installed AlmaLinux 9 on a bunch of machines over this past weekend and it went great. My VM host boxes and storage are all update and working great. I can honestly say I am happy with this distribution. They release at great speed, which if you remember the LAAAAG for CentOS releases it used to drive everyone crazy. I found AlmaLinux a breeze to install and use. I do drop some pretty customized configuration on the machines once they are up and these all went up and didn't even bat an eyelash.
Thanks for providing us with an alternative to CentOS.
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Version: 9.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-15
Votes: 0
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I installed AlmaLinux 9 in a virtual machine 2 weeks ago, it's running smoothly and stably. Rocky, oracle, etc haven't released their rhel 9 clone yet, from this point of view, from the release lag from rhel, AlmaLinux is better than Rocky, oracle, etc.
AlmaLinux 9 is easy to use and importantly, updates are closely following those on RHEL, which is a very strong signal about the liveliness and the security level of this distribution.
Great RHEL clone! Thanks to AlmaLinux team! Hope AlmaLinux go a long time!
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Version: 8.6
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-05-28
Votes: 0
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Running AlmaLinux 8.5 then upgraded to 8.6 on a home dual-boot laptop: from my experience, this OS is very stable & reliable, with a user experience close enough to Red Hat but still with a distinctive flavour. Special mention for the desktop feature allowing you to go in the top left corner to easily switch from one running application to another :-D
AlmaLinux is easy to use and importantly, updates are closely following those on RHEL (as I have two laptops - the first running RHEL, the second on Alma - I can see the updates arriving on both releases), which is a very strong signal about the liveliness and the security level of this distribution.
I would highly recommand AlmaLinux - looking forward to trying the 9.0 release!
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Version: 8.6
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-16
Votes: 0
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All my home PCs are using Alma Linux, desktops and a virtualization host server itself running virtual servers mainly for mail and website services, totally flawlessly.
Great RHEL clone! Thanks to Alma Linux team!
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-05-09
Votes: 0
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I liked what I saw, however a few observations there:
1) I could not install only from a Ventoy USB stick because of lack of exfat support. I could but only after a network install of the required modules etc... in short : add the necessary packages to install Alama Linux from a Ventoy formated USB drive... or provide a modified version of Ventoy using FAT32 instead of EXFAT?
2) From a pristine A.L 8.5 installation, I could not find a version of Xampp which installed : it was always a failure (library),
Could not Alama Linux provide a validated version of xampp installer, along with each release, or a pointer to a valid version ?
3) I tried the promising Alma Linux of BlueOny (similar to xammp for NGINX server) : it was a disaster... perhaps because of lack of clear documentation.
The challenge of simply installing a server and its most common applications like Wordpress, Nginx, MediaWiki, etc... is still with us.
To alleviate them so things work "out of the box" or simply, would be a great accomplishment.
A.G
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-02-11
Votes: 0
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My switch from Centos to AlmaLinux was completely smooth. No problems at all on my older hardware. Very stable.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-28
Votes: 0
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No problems at all. It just works, and works well.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-18
Votes: 0
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So far so good. Setup some implementations close to current custom production servers to do testing and it is hard to tell a difference with what I am running at least.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-16
Votes: 5
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Basically beta quality software is all this is about. A transfer tool from CentOS that doesn’t work, tons of resource usage, the gnome desktop environment always being what it is- user-unfriendly, that is also the most resource intensive and buggy desktop environments out there. This distro locks you down a lot and gives you barely any freedom.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-03
Votes: 0
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Very stable distro supporting flatpak apps out of the box,customisable desktop easy install and handling of Nvidia driver
Thanks a lot almalinux team
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-12-28
Votes: 9
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A pretty slow, resource heavy distro. I’ve had a lot of problems trying to transfer over from CentOS to Alma, but it failed and I would’ve had to start everything from scratch, which I refused to do and tried out another distro based on CentOS, Rocky Linux. With Rocky Linux, transferring over from CentOS was very easy and straightforward and everything transferred over and isn’t that resource intensive. I don’t recommend Alma.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-22
Votes: 0
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Backed by the famous Cloudlinux team (which means it will be around forever) and point releases appear very rapidly after RHEL is released (remember how many months it used to take CentOS to release new versions of RHEL?). It's functionally the same as RHEL / CentOS but without IBM's interference. It's just CentOS with a new name. Easy to migrate from CentOS too. The 1 out of 10 ratings seem a little bit suspicious to me. Claims of Alma being "slow" or "bloated" are ridiculous, it's a RHEL 1:1 binary compatible distribution as in it works exactly the same as RHEL, CentOS, Rocky etc. The clincher for me is that it was set up by the Cloudlinux team who have been working on RHEL clones for donkeys years. They have the experience, the expertise and the infrastructure to make this a great community project.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-16
Votes: 0
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We are long-time CentOS users who finally had to switch because of the move to Stream. We needed something downstream from RHEL for reliability and settled on AlmaLinux, primarily because of the migration script and the support from CloudLinux and others. The migration script worked like a wonder. We had a fully migrated system in about 30 minutes. Our systems are console-only, so I can only speak for the process in that context. But for console-only systems there have been no problems at all. Highly recommended.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-03
Votes: 0
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It just works. I have had problems. The closest replacement to Scientific Linux that I have found.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-11-30
Votes: 9
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A slow and bloated clone of CentOS which doesn’t work well. I have had a lot of crashes using this, and don’t expect the tool to work when switching over from CentOS to Alma. It is also resource-intensive. For a server OS, it’s not worth it.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-11-24
Votes: 12
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Bloated, resource intensive distro. The tool to transfer all of my settings, applications and other data from CentOS to Alma did not work, even though it said everything was transferred over.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-11-14
Votes: 22
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Alma is slow and bloated. The transfer tool does not work properly and has crashed my system to where I needed to repair my boot loader, I don’t know why it did that, but it feels like to me rushing out another version just to get a newer number or a point with a number is not good. This release feels pretty buggy and I don’t trust it to be a good CentOS based distro.
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Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-12
Votes: 0
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Great CentOS replacement with a great community! FAST releases!
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-25
Votes: 0
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I have upgraded my CentOS7 to CenOS8 just because I wanted to migrate to AlmaLinux. The migration script is like a miracle. I litteraly put down one command and my CentOS8 has been converted to AlmaLinux 8.4 by itself. It did not even required a reboot! Althought I've rebooted anyway to use new kernel from AlmaLinux. I'ts running happily ever since. No issues so far.
It was more work to upgrade CentOS7 to CentOS8. And now when they released their ELevate tool, this will be piece of cake too. Finally a good CentOS replacement. Thank you Alma!
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-10-23
Votes: 11
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Switching from CentOS to Alma wasn’t easy, I’ve got some errors trying to update packages- dependency hell basically. Applications were a little slow to open up and not as responsive while using them. This felt a bit heavyweight to me as well to run, it used a lot of RAM while the system was idle.
I don’t recommend AlmaLinix, I hope to find another CentOS based distro that works as I need it to.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-10-09
Votes: 11
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I was hoping this would be a good successor to CentOS, but I was wrong, I’ve had some errors, crashes and general instability with this. Good thing I didn’t migrate everything over to Alma. I’m going to find another CentOS replacement. That’s the good thing with Linux, if one distro isn’t working well, more than likely, there’s another one to try.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-03
Votes: 0
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To us a stable container platform is what we need. In our case via podman.
Long story short: here Alma Linux delivers perfectly. Enterprise grade, stable, reliable and even more conservative than RHEL. Exactly the way we hoped CentOS would continue to deliver - but doesnt.
No issues so far - stable and reliable. Go AlmaLinux.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-08-18
Votes: 0
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Can't say enough about this awesome distro! It is extremely stable, professional enterprise grade and no issues to date. I don't care much for gnome so I added kde plasma and got it all dialed in the way I like it. I checked out the other RHEL distros and settled on Alma due to the fact that they have the talent and backing to be a huge success and most certainly will be around a long time. Also recently read that a cloudlinux employee (Almas creators) discovered a serious problem in a fix for a prior problem (see CVE-2021-38604). Awesome job and great example of the power of the linux community! I have not had a need to use their forums but read through them regularly and the people are very helpful and polite unlike some other distros which I will not mention. They now have live images with gnome, plasma, & xfce in beta versions available so that will be helpful for people looking to take a test drive before installing. Overall, if you are looking for an enterprise grade linux OS that is stable and secure look no further than Alma.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-08-07
Votes: 0
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Great alternative to CentOS, more stable than Fedora. Excellent RHEL compatible learning/testing environment for personal projects.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-07-02
Votes: 0
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Works just like CentOS. Secure, Fast and Reliable.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-07-01
Votes: 0
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Good quick turn around after RHEL 8.4 for AlmaLinux 8.4. UBI line docker images almalinux is gread along with cloud images
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-29
Votes: 0
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Good solution to replace CentOs. No problem. Stable and fast.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-29
Votes: 0
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I have been very happy with Alma Linux to date. I have been able to get all the same tasks completed with Alma that I use to get done with CentOS. I have enjoyed my experiences so far with the community, even though they have been minimal. I have appreciated the attention to the reddit sub-reddit.
It has been really easy for me to move from CentOS to Alma Linux, and that is pretty much what was promised, so I am a satisfied user.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-28
Votes: 0
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Needed to replace production centos 8 systems. After validation testing and review AlamaLinux has been perfect in comparison with centos 8. Actually better in that the stable releases and fixes from upstream REHL8 made into the AlmaLinux 8 repository faster than centos 8
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-26
Votes: 0
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Stable OS, performs identical to the good old CentOS 8.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-25
Votes: 0
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I've been using Linux since 1993 (SLS). I currently am responsible (along with my team) for managing all the Linux infrastructure for a large regional ISP, and it was with some alarm that I learned about the, er, new direction that CentOS was taking.
AlmaLinux wasn't the only solution that quickly appeared, but it was the first, and the team behind it impressed me with their professionalism and dedication. This is the distro I am using personally, and we will be using it at work as well.
A couple people mentioned secure boot missing in 8.3 -- it's fixed in 8.4, which is a true drop-in replacement for CentOS 8.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-06-25
Votes: 0
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Fairly straightforward drop-in replacement for CentOS. Would like to see more information about governance.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-11
Votes: 0
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Used AlmALinux 8.4 to port OSCAR Cluster and SystemImager to RHEL-8 and compatible distros. It worked like a charm. It is even more compatible to RHEL than CentOS is (/etc/os-release includes minor version like RHEL while CentOS didn't)
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-04
Votes: 0
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Love this OS. I only use enterprise grade software and feel confident that Alma has the backing to be around for a long time unlike the shaky past of CentOS. It's unfortunate that IBM dropped the project but thats what greedy corporations do. Alma has a bright future. Thanks to the Alma team for producing this fine distro!
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-01
Votes: 0
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Good distrom very smooth migration from Centos 8. Nice
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-27
Votes: 0
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transition smoothly front CentOS. It gave the extra mile from I was expecting
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Version: 8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-10
Votes: 0
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Installing and running AlmaLinux is flawlessly identical to CentOS, there is no transition effort or even any thought needed. It works exactly the way you expect.
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Version: 8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-04-26
Votes: 0
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This is a great release. Not only did it work flawlessly when we migrated our Kubernetes cluster but the community is very pleasant and responsive as well.
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Version: 8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-04-09
Votes: 0
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I installed the final release using the boot ISO and then added KDE since it’s my preferred DE. Everything went perfectly and the Plasma desktop is much sharper than a lot of other distros. The machine is an Intel NUC with only the Celeron option and it previously contained KDE Neon. Alma Linux is definitely faster but maybe on something with say an i5 it would not be so noticeable. Not everything I needed is available from the base repo but adding EPEL and Fusion fixed most of that and what was left I installed using Flatpak which is included by default. This is truly an excellent effort but not that surprising when you consider the resources that were allocated to produce it.
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Version: 8.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-03-31
Votes: 0
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working nicely, but secureboot still missing makes it a nogo for my current projects.
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Version: 8.3-rc1
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-03-03
Votes: 0
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AlmaLinux is an excellent rebuilt of Redhat Linux.
CentOS did not keep the promise of "end-of-life" days for their distros. When Redhat took over CentOS, it was predicted ...
Now, AlmaLinux takes over what CentOS has left. I am so glad to see it.
My first impression is that AlmaLinux is a bit slow when booting. Perhaps it was due to the upstream implementation of boot-related stuff. Once booting, it is OK. So far no issue at all.
EPEL and other third party repos still work well with AlmaLinux. If you liked CentOS, you will like AlmaLinux.
Two thumbs way up!
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Version: 8.3-rc1
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-03-01
Votes: 0
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I found it almost ready, only the ability to get past the secure boot (which they are working on) is missing. EPEL and RPMFUSION install easily and provide almost all non-free programs (lame is not present). Also very usable on a desktop, as long as you love GNOME. I hope they also develop SIGs that curate a KDE and MATE version at least.
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Latest Reviews
Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-06-15
Votes: 5
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We've been quite happy so far with AlmaLinux OS. Being prior CentOS7 consumers (yes, the old one), we just needed an OS that's stable for our VPSs and maintained. All the package upgrades going from CentOS -> AlmaLinux were very nice as well.
We're running low powered (cheap) VPSs and everything seems to work fine: Apache, php, fail2ban on a 1cpu, 1GB system w/ a 2Gig swap. The move from AlmaLinux 8x -> 9x was smooth with few issues.
Our only issue is that we probably need a little more powerful VPS for php and so fail2ban blocks the 'bots a little quicker. We see no need to change the OS when migrating to a new VPS.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.4
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-06-08
Votes: 5
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This is a solid Redhat-based Linux distro for professional or hobbyist use, keeping in mind that you will probably need to do some customization after installation. It was able to install on an older laptop that both Windows and Debian were unable to install on due to unknown isses with the previous installation's formatting of the drive (purely software-related). It successfully wiped the drive and installed.
If you don't like Gnome or the limited number of apps available in the default repos, then be prepared to use the terminal to add more repos and install other desktop environments. Several Almalinux repos can be added through the software app's GUI, however the EPEL repo isn't among those most desktop users will probably want that added. I also suggest installing flatpak, for access to many other apps people commonly want.
Almalinux isn't supposed to be an exact duplicate of Redhat, but it is binary compatible. With that in mind, I'd recommend they create a Cinnamon desktop version since that's closer to the Windows experience that many users are comfortable with. Gnome is what Redhat uses, but it's always been too much of a tablet-like OS for me to use every day. I'd also suggest they add the Fedora EPEL in by default if they're not going to replicate those apps in their own repos. It's otherwise a great, very stable and secure distro that I've got running on 2 PCs, after years of using Debian/Ubuntu and their variants. I highly recommend it to anyone open to the idea of a little customization after installation.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-03
Votes: 3
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This distro is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, basically. It is loaded with professionalism and polish. Be sure to go into the Software utility and hit the drop down menu for adding needed repositories.
I am using the default Gnome DE, tweaked with the "Tweak" tool in Apps, and tweaked more with Gnome Extensions (including my favorite, very robust "Just Perfection" extension).
You can do anything you want to do with this, and it is a very pleasant experience right from the beginning. I used to have a negative attitude toward Gnome, but that has changed now (this shipped with version 40).
Alma installs just like Fedora and Red Hat, using the Anaconda installer which presents you right away with the whole page of choices. I always start with the Network program, then on to Time and Date, then the installation destination area I want the distro on. After that you can decide which Alma Linux environment you want, "Work Station," "Development," "Server," etc.
Alma Anaconda moved a lot of info and apps etc quickly and was ready to go with both User and Root accounts I'd set up in about six minutes.
It rebooted into a default Gnome desktop and was ready for my customisations. Everything is working as expected and is FAST and glitch-free.
An easy "10."
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-04-30
Votes: 6
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I was a Centos user and changed by curiosity to Alma Linux. Not that Centos is bad (it is actually really good), but to my knowing has no pure KDE version.
Alma Linux has and so I went for the KDE version.
Really happy with this choice. The extra Synergy repo does add value as I like Warpinator, which is included in Synergy.
I am ashtonished by the speed of this distro. Everything works spot on on Wayland, which is really good.
As for now I do not need Nvidia drivers.
I would have liked a more up-to-date kernel, but what the 5.14 works really well.
My idea is not the change a winning team, so I trust Alma Linux this kernel is capabel and safe.
So, I think Alma Linux is the best version for those home users searching quality over quantity. The only valid competitor being OpenSuse Leap. Opensuse however in a way forces to install Nvidia, which is a problem with my 470-driver if I want to use Wayland.
With Alma I am not forced in any way to install Nvidia so I can continue on Wayland-Nouveau.
So, yes, I invite people to use Alma, professional and home user alike. It is a top distro.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-11-25
Votes: 0
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Installed workstation, AlmaLinux 9.3, gnome desktop, installed EPEL as described here: www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-epel-on-almalinux/ . I also enabled Flatpak orcacore.com/quick-setup-for-flatpak-on-almalinux-9-and-rhel-9/ . With that, I installed every bit of software I wanted. I only needed FlatPak for Spotify. Gnome had some nice improvements that with the pdf doc viewer. I have an older desktop with a Gen 4, i3 processor, 16G RAM, SSDs and it's plenty fast. My laptop is running Fedora 39. Happy with both. Just like to have different life cycles in case something goes horribly wrong.
AlmaLinux 9.3 (Shamrock Pampas Cat)
Gnome: 40.4.0
Wayland
Why only 9? I tried to installing the KDE Plasma live image and it would't boot after the upgrade to 9.3. I suspect something related to KDE Plasma display, graphics, wayland. I forgot to check if Xorg worked.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.8
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-15
Votes: 2
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lite and simple to use: An open source, community owned and managed, free enterprise Linux distribution. Focusing on long-term stability and providing a powerful production level platform. It can serve as an alternative to RHEL's downstream Linux operating system after CentOS stops maintenance (changed to rolling updates) and inherits the open source and free features of the original CentOS.
I have tried asking questions on AlmaLinux and RockyLinux, and AlmaLinux's response is quite effective, making RockyLinux easy to overlook; I originally had a liking for RockyLinux, but later found out that the official mioors couldn't list all CN images, and no one gave feedback
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-02
Votes: 2
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AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.2
Use: Desktop
Desktop Environment: Gnome
Architecture: x86_64
Hardware: HP Z230 workstation, 16GiB RAM and assorted SSDs
I have been using AlmaLinux 9.2 as a desktop operating system for about a month.
During this time it has impressed as a very stable operating system.
Peformance is snappy and seems a little quicker with an ext4 root file system, rather than the default xfs.
AlmaLinux 9.2 was installed without any issues using a boot iso and a network install.
Note: AlmaLinux seems to have a similar issue to recent versions of Fedora, where the installation media won't boot in UEFI mode on some older motherboards.
A good selection of desktop applications can be obtained from:
* AlmaLinux repositories;
* EPEL and RPMFusion third party repos; and
* Flatpaks.
As AlmaLinux is 1:1 binary compatible with RHEL, documentation is not an issue.
The caliber of the companies backing Alma Linux is reassuring, as is CERN and Fermilab's choice of AlmaLinux as their standard linux distribution.
I also like that AlmaLinux is community-driven and that the AlmaLinux OS Foundation is a non-profit organisation.
AlmaLinux does everything I need a desktop operating system to do and does them well.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-21
Votes: 0
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Very good distro, but I have found many issues in tradicional installation procedure, however using the live image it performed very well, recognizing my notebook hardware and installed without any error. I'm going to use for desktop not server, but I hope the lack of packages can be supplied by flatpak, snap, gnu guix, appimage and docker apps.
I'm using Almalinux because I do not want to install and reinstall my linux every 2 or 3 years. Most distros haven`t a good end of life and Rolling Releases breaks to much. I have used CentOS8 for some months and it was amazing, management of system resources are expectacular, too much different from ubuntu that eats all of your resources.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-03-07
Votes: 0
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Downloaded and installed both versions, KDE and Gnome. Both without any issues whatsoever. Even found how to add repositories on their Wiki page. Solid, sturdy, and quite beautiful to boot. Will use this for quite a while I think as it was solid. Adding Flatpaks was easy, as was updating, and customizing. I should say I am quite familiar with Red Hat and Fedora, so this was a no brainer for me. So far so good on two machines, both DE. I hope this project will be around quite a while. I like Rocky Linux too, but not too keen on the name, i get why, but just rubs me wrong. Alma (soul) makes sense. Love it.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.1
Rating: 5
Date: 2023-02-04
Votes: 0
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Overall I really like the 9.1 version, fast and responsive desktop! Well structured and easy to manage. All hardware was recognized and the installer worked very well. EPEL and RPMfusion installed without fuss.
But on the negative side ... I"m not pleased with Flathub, flatpaks and Freedesktop.org. I don"t like the idea of portable apps. It"s a single source that could inject problems in general.
The fact that it"s a workhorse of a desktop and simple to navigate is a great way to get your work dome.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-30
Votes: 2
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I'd give it 10 out of 10 if it were a bit easier to manage repos, the system is blazing fast much on the contrary of the comments here I've read and to be honest it is way better than cent.
I'd also love to have any automated gui backup apps added to the default installs.
Ubuntu has some nice approach to disabling the noveau package, it's about time some automation is added in that sense as well.
The Gnome desktop is a bit clunky as it is in any distro but you can change that fairly easy.
I'm relatively new to these variants of cent but overall they've done a hell of a great job! 9/10.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-01
Votes: 0
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Alma is slow and bloated, my system has crashed numerous times while I’m use, and even twice hitting up my computer, it would restart after the logo would pop up, just like windows does in a boot loop. The transfer tool does not work properly and has crashed my system to where I needed to repair my boot loader, I don’t know why it did that, but it feels like to me rushing out another version just to get a newer number or a point with a number is not good. This release feels pretty buggy and I don’t trust it to be a good CentOS based distro.
I don’t recommend this.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-12-31
Votes: 1
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I am using the 9.1 live XFCE version for desktops and the minimal server version for my servers. There are no negatives here, and the plus was the ease of installation of the Centos Web Panel (CWP) for managing the server. For the desktop, the system is fast and responsive under XFCE. The server is hosting websites and Is running well. The server and desktop systems are stable, and I have no negative issues to report. The Community is active, and it is easy to get information when asking questions. It also runs great on the laptop and has no issues when installing or afterward.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-12-27
Votes: 0
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I was hoping this would be a good community-based server OS and a successor to CentOS, but I was wrong, I’ve had some errors, crashes and general instability with this.
Gnome is very resource intensive and bloated. I wish there would be other desktop environments offered with Alma.
It’s a good thing I didn’t migrate everything over to Alma, I did try to transfer a couple files from CentOS to Alma and that failed. I’m going to find another CentOS replacement. That’s the good thing with Linux, if one distro isn’t working well, more than likely, there’s another one to try.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-11-13
Votes: 0
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Best distro I have used in 20 years of Linux, I use it as a stable desktop environment on 2 Think-Pads and and it rocks. No need to worry about the next update breaking everything, plenty of software and even more with the Flatpak enabled.
Just add epel, rpm fusion that along with Flathub and you have everything at your fingertips, welcome to the most stable efficient os that just purs along. Pinch to zoom works flawlessly not like Ubuntu 22.04, I have been a Ubuntu user since 5.04 but this has changed the game for me. I know its touted as a server distro but who says you cant use it as a desktop, hell its even built into the installer "Workstation". Thanks to all who maintain this distro, updates as sent through as soon as there avaialbe upstream.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-10-29
Votes: 0
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I've waited to give Alma time to develop before installing but did so with 9.0 onto a problematic Compaq notebook with no problems at all. Some users without previous knowledge of CentOS might be frustrated with a few things such as how to get recognition for external drives but solutions for such issues are easily found and to be honest if they prove difficult to solve a Debian based specific desktop distro would be a better choice. Otherwise Alma is running fine on my hardware, is fast and stable. It certainly scores extra points for the live ISO options and it's the KDE version I ran and installed from. The installer is not difficult, try Arch or Void, but even these are easy enough second time around and not everything uses Calamares. I still fall short of recommending distros designed for server use as desktops, especially for home use, but Alma does fit the bill for a long term stable release that is unlikely to break with the next update.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-09-30
Votes: 0
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So I installed Almalinux 9 some months ago. I needed a stable Linux version which can handle all my hardware components including my Supermicro motherboard with Xeon processor, and AMD video card. The most important was my Samsung SCX-4521F scanner-printer that somehow I could not install on any Debian based Linux distro fully. Either I was able to scan but I cannot print or reverse. But everything was OK on Manjaro, Fedora, Opensuse also. Why?
So I began to use Almalinux 9 as a workstation, and until now it is perfect for me. A little bit faster than Opensuse, Manjaro was the fastest, but not the most secure and stable one.
My choosen desktop is Gnome, but I would prefer Cinnamon.Unfortunately on Almalinux 9 there is no solution in the Almalinux forum, where another user also need it without answer. I think that a good Linux distro must be capable to handle the most all of popular desktop versions like Fedora do it for example.
Note: On Cinnamon switching between tasks is easier with using only mouse than do it the same thing on Gnome.
This is why my rating is only 9.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-09-29
Votes: 0
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This just keeps getting worse and worse. I’ve had nothing but problems using Alma. Is is very slow, not stable, the community is unhelpful and the devs are non-existent. Don’t expect patches, bug fixes and such to be done with this distro, it’s all a whole mess here. I am tempted to completely drop Red Hat/Red Hat based server distros and just go to Suse’s enterprise product. I would say this distro is even worse than CentOS became when they switched to being a beta testing distro not for the community anymore. Lots of bugs and crashes I’ve experienced too. Did something else better and don’t waste your time here, this is a migraine-inducer dealing with Alma.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.6
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-09-12
Votes: 0
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I have tested AlmaLinux twice in the past several months. Despite installing OK I found a huge deal breaker: it will not recognize a USB flash drive! I don't have time to scour the web and look up what to do to fix that problem which I have NEVER seen while testing dozens of different distros over the past 16 years. It also fails when trying to install and run packages using Flatpak. Rocky Linux installs and works fine with flash drives and Flatpak. With just those two things Rocky does rings around Alma! I simply gfind it impossible to use AlmaLinux at this time. Need I say more?
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-27
Votes: 0
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I installed AlmaLinux 9 on a bunch of machines over this past weekend and it went great. My VM host boxes and storage are all update and working great. I can honestly say I am happy with this distribution. They release at great speed, which if you remember the LAAAAG for CentOS releases it used to drive everyone crazy. I found AlmaLinux a breeze to install and use. I do drop some pretty customized configuration on the machines once they are up and these all went up and didn't even bat an eyelash.
Thanks for providing us with an alternative to CentOS.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-06-27
Votes: 0
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Yes, I used Almalinux 9 Beta, and it works quite well.
Because I am a very long time Fedora user, I was in know ground, and had no other issue... than documentation.
Installing NGINX usung just dnf, was a breeze : it worked out of the box.
Installing Wordpress over NGINX& MariaDB installing RPM packages with dnf was a pretty bad experience !
I had to rather do a manual install, mostly using the RHEL 9 documentation.
This is a bit unfortunate and it is likely that there are issues with the packages and/or documentation.
It would be great to have a cpanel like install experience to be able to install and configure easily popular CMS's like Wordpress, MediaWilki, Drupal (perhaps more) over SEMP server (NGINX/MariaDB etc...).
Another "Little detail" is GNOME, that I admit I just dislike, and prefer the simpler highly functional MATE GUI environment.
I have not tried to enable it on Alma Linux 9, but woukld suggest that a "spin" with these would be great.
Did I mention Installing Alma Linux 9, using a Ventoy formated USB flash drive now works well.
Previous version of Alama Linux would not install with Ventoy (exfat) formated flash drive, because previous kernels did not support exfat.
Anaconda is still a mediocre (hard to use) Linux Installer, especially for non standard (custom) install, but now I got used to it.
Still an enhanced installer would not hurt, perhaps an upcoming version ?
In any case, congratulations, as it is Alma Linux 9 is a very good alternative to CENTOS, or RHLE ( : go for it !
A.G
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.6
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-27
Votes: 0
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I like the 8.6 version. Was easy to install, worked using the KDE, GNOME is a lost cause. Based on the 9.0 reviews I'll wait for a while before I upgrade. One more thing, please bring back KmyMoney into a repository some where.
You have to remember that this is just the start of a long run to replace CentOS and it takes time to get warmed up. Liked Alma more then Rocky Linux which was later to the table.
Have to wait on the 9.0 release until it comes up to speed. I like using KDE with Alma.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 9.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-15
Votes: 0
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I installed AlmaLinux 9 in a virtual machine 2 weeks ago, it's running smoothly and stably. Rocky, oracle, etc haven't released their rhel 9 clone yet, from this point of view, from the release lag from rhel, AlmaLinux is better than Rocky, oracle, etc.
AlmaLinux 9 is easy to use and importantly, updates are closely following those on RHEL, which is a very strong signal about the liveliness and the security level of this distribution.
Great RHEL clone! Thanks to AlmaLinux team! Hope AlmaLinux go a long time!
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.6
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-05-28
Votes: 0
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Running AlmaLinux 8.5 then upgraded to 8.6 on a home dual-boot laptop: from my experience, this OS is very stable & reliable, with a user experience close enough to Red Hat but still with a distinctive flavour. Special mention for the desktop feature allowing you to go in the top left corner to easily switch from one running application to another :-D
AlmaLinux is easy to use and importantly, updates are closely following those on RHEL (as I have two laptops - the first running RHEL, the second on Alma - I can see the updates arriving on both releases), which is a very strong signal about the liveliness and the security level of this distribution.
I would highly recommand AlmaLinux - looking forward to trying the 9.0 release!
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.6
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-16
Votes: 0
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All my home PCs are using Alma Linux, desktops and a virtualization host server itself running virtual servers mainly for mail and website services, totally flawlessly.
Great RHEL clone! Thanks to Alma Linux team!
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-05-09
Votes: 0
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I liked what I saw, however a few observations there:
1) I could not install only from a Ventoy USB stick because of lack of exfat support. I could but only after a network install of the required modules etc... in short : add the necessary packages to install Alama Linux from a Ventoy formated USB drive... or provide a modified version of Ventoy using FAT32 instead of EXFAT?
2) From a pristine A.L 8.5 installation, I could not find a version of Xampp which installed : it was always a failure (library),
Could not Alama Linux provide a validated version of xampp installer, along with each release, or a pointer to a valid version ?
3) I tried the promising Alma Linux of BlueOny (similar to xammp for NGINX server) : it was a disaster... perhaps because of lack of clear documentation.
The challenge of simply installing a server and its most common applications like Wordpress, Nginx, MediaWiki, etc... is still with us.
To alleviate them so things work "out of the box" or simply, would be a great accomplishment.
A.G
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-02-11
Votes: 0
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My switch from Centos to AlmaLinux was completely smooth. No problems at all on my older hardware. Very stable.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-28
Votes: 0
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No problems at all. It just works, and works well.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-18
Votes: 0
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So far so good. Setup some implementations close to current custom production servers to do testing and it is hard to tell a difference with what I am running at least.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-01-16
Votes: 5
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Basically beta quality software is all this is about. A transfer tool from CentOS that doesn’t work, tons of resource usage, the gnome desktop environment always being what it is- user-unfriendly, that is also the most resource intensive and buggy desktop environments out there. This distro locks you down a lot and gives you barely any freedom.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-03
Votes: 0
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Very stable distro supporting flatpak apps out of the box,customisable desktop easy install and handling of Nvidia driver
Thanks a lot almalinux team
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-12-28
Votes: 9
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A pretty slow, resource heavy distro. I’ve had a lot of problems trying to transfer over from CentOS to Alma, but it failed and I would’ve had to start everything from scratch, which I refused to do and tried out another distro based on CentOS, Rocky Linux. With Rocky Linux, transferring over from CentOS was very easy and straightforward and everything transferred over and isn’t that resource intensive. I don’t recommend Alma.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-22
Votes: 0
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Backed by the famous Cloudlinux team (which means it will be around forever) and point releases appear very rapidly after RHEL is released (remember how many months it used to take CentOS to release new versions of RHEL?). It's functionally the same as RHEL / CentOS but without IBM's interference. It's just CentOS with a new name. Easy to migrate from CentOS too. The 1 out of 10 ratings seem a little bit suspicious to me. Claims of Alma being "slow" or "bloated" are ridiculous, it's a RHEL 1:1 binary compatible distribution as in it works exactly the same as RHEL, CentOS, Rocky etc. The clincher for me is that it was set up by the Cloudlinux team who have been working on RHEL clones for donkeys years. They have the experience, the expertise and the infrastructure to make this a great community project.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-16
Votes: 0
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We are long-time CentOS users who finally had to switch because of the move to Stream. We needed something downstream from RHEL for reliability and settled on AlmaLinux, primarily because of the migration script and the support from CloudLinux and others. The migration script worked like a wonder. We had a fully migrated system in about 30 minutes. Our systems are console-only, so I can only speak for the process in that context. But for console-only systems there have been no problems at all. Highly recommended.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-03
Votes: 0
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It just works. I have had problems. The closest replacement to Scientific Linux that I have found.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-11-30
Votes: 9
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A slow and bloated clone of CentOS which doesn’t work well. I have had a lot of crashes using this, and don’t expect the tool to work when switching over from CentOS to Alma. It is also resource-intensive. For a server OS, it’s not worth it.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-11-24
Votes: 12
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Bloated, resource intensive distro. The tool to transfer all of my settings, applications and other data from CentOS to Alma did not work, even though it said everything was transferred over.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-11-14
Votes: 22
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Alma is slow and bloated. The transfer tool does not work properly and has crashed my system to where I needed to repair my boot loader, I don’t know why it did that, but it feels like to me rushing out another version just to get a newer number or a point with a number is not good. This release feels pretty buggy and I don’t trust it to be a good CentOS based distro.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-12
Votes: 0
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Great CentOS replacement with a great community! FAST releases!
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-25
Votes: 0
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I have upgraded my CentOS7 to CenOS8 just because I wanted to migrate to AlmaLinux. The migration script is like a miracle. I litteraly put down one command and my CentOS8 has been converted to AlmaLinux 8.4 by itself. It did not even required a reboot! Althought I've rebooted anyway to use new kernel from AlmaLinux. I'ts running happily ever since. No issues so far.
It was more work to upgrade CentOS7 to CentOS8. And now when they released their ELevate tool, this will be piece of cake too. Finally a good CentOS replacement. Thank you Alma!
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-10-23
Votes: 11
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Switching from CentOS to Alma wasn’t easy, I’ve got some errors trying to update packages- dependency hell basically. Applications were a little slow to open up and not as responsive while using them. This felt a bit heavyweight to me as well to run, it used a lot of RAM while the system was idle.
I don’t recommend AlmaLinix, I hope to find another CentOS based distro that works as I need it to.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-10-09
Votes: 11
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I was hoping this would be a good successor to CentOS, but I was wrong, I’ve had some errors, crashes and general instability with this. Good thing I didn’t migrate everything over to Alma. I’m going to find another CentOS replacement. That’s the good thing with Linux, if one distro isn’t working well, more than likely, there’s another one to try.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-03
Votes: 0
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To us a stable container platform is what we need. In our case via podman.
Long story short: here Alma Linux delivers perfectly. Enterprise grade, stable, reliable and even more conservative than RHEL. Exactly the way we hoped CentOS would continue to deliver - but doesnt.
No issues so far - stable and reliable. Go AlmaLinux.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-08-18
Votes: 0
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Can't say enough about this awesome distro! It is extremely stable, professional enterprise grade and no issues to date. I don't care much for gnome so I added kde plasma and got it all dialed in the way I like it. I checked out the other RHEL distros and settled on Alma due to the fact that they have the talent and backing to be a huge success and most certainly will be around a long time. Also recently read that a cloudlinux employee (Almas creators) discovered a serious problem in a fix for a prior problem (see CVE-2021-38604). Awesome job and great example of the power of the linux community! I have not had a need to use their forums but read through them regularly and the people are very helpful and polite unlike some other distros which I will not mention. They now have live images with gnome, plasma, & xfce in beta versions available so that will be helpful for people looking to take a test drive before installing. Overall, if you are looking for an enterprise grade linux OS that is stable and secure look no further than Alma.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-08-07
Votes: 0
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Great alternative to CentOS, more stable than Fedora. Excellent RHEL compatible learning/testing environment for personal projects.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-07-02
Votes: 0
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Works just like CentOS. Secure, Fast and Reliable.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-07-01
Votes: 0
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Good quick turn around after RHEL 8.4 for AlmaLinux 8.4. UBI line docker images almalinux is gread along with cloud images
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-29
Votes: 0
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I have been very happy with Alma Linux to date. I have been able to get all the same tasks completed with Alma that I use to get done with CentOS. I have enjoyed my experiences so far with the community, even though they have been minimal. I have appreciated the attention to the reddit sub-reddit.
It has been really easy for me to move from CentOS to Alma Linux, and that is pretty much what was promised, so I am a satisfied user.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-29
Votes: 0
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Good solution to replace CentOs. No problem. Stable and fast.
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Project: AlmaLinux OS
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-28
Votes: 0
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Needed to replace production centos 8 systems. After validation testing and review AlamaLinux has been perfect in comparison with centos 8. Actually better in that the stable releases and fixes from upstream REHL8 made into the AlmaLinux 8 repository faster than centos 8
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