Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is available for the x86_64 and AArch64 processor architectures.
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Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the "nautilus" and "gnome-shell" packages. The Apache web server is listed as "httpd" and the Linux kernel is listed as "linux". The KDE desktop is represented by the "plasma-desktop" package and the Xfce desktop by the "xfdesktop" package.
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Been using RL with KDE plasma GUI since the demise of CentOS.
running dnf-automatic from cron every night, systems have been stable for years. bc I was busy starting a new job, I didn't even realize that they all upgraded from 9.4 to 9.5 until two months later.
Firefox, FreeCAD, 3D printing, google chrome/sheets, Visual Studio Code, Plex server, Plex MediaCenter, audacity, ffmpeg.
Stable
If you are looking for an alternative to Windows that doesn't require constant fiddling and just works as an operating system, I couldn't recommend it more.
I even have a system 3000 miles away with people who know nothing about windows or mac let alone Linux, and it just works.
Version: 9.5 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-04 Votes: 5
I know this is meant as a server OS, but I use this as my everyday distro, it’s that stable. It’s kinda boring that I haven’t had any breakages or lockups using this for the past 6 months- but that’s a good thing, because it works and you don’t have to go through so much hassle and stress- that’s a plus. From visiting the forum, there are a lot of friendly, helpful people there- that’s another plus. Ram usage is normal and not too high, applications are quick to open and turning on the computer, it is pretty quick to get to the desktop, and the shutdown is pretty quick too.
Rocky is definitely a great distro to use, not just for server use, but as an everyday OS.
The only minus about it is, the insistence of this and other server distros to always have gnome as the default desktop environment- which is bad because the gnome developers make it so hard to change things to your liking and they make sure any workarounds become broken and mess up the distro- that is not at all a fault of Rocky Linux, but of the gnome developers. If you’re coming from Windows Server, gnome is definitely not the way to go about getting people use to their new home- KDE is lighter in resources, is more user-friendly (especially coming from Windows Server) and the developers listen to users’ feedback and are transparent and open, compared to gnome’s developers who are rude, standoffish and act like Microsoft making sure if you do any workarounds, they’ll sniff it out and make sure you can’t use the workarounds, and if you do, the updates will break your system and lead to hours of frustration- again, that’s the fault of the gnome developers, and not Rocky Linux.
Really like this distro. I have been using it on my workstation for about a month and a half and have very little issues with it. It is incredibly snappy, and getting things to install is not too complicated. I have asked the rocky forum from time to time on help of getting certain things installed but this is not rocky's fault, just the rhel nature so this would translate over to any of the other rhel distros (alma, oracle etc). Nvidia drivers do not install by default so it does require some investigating but it was well documented. This distro is my main everyday OS and I really love it.