On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 05:18:19PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Le 11/02/2021 à 17:08, Simon Matter a écrit :
But, I'm a bit shocked to find EPEL 8 in such a bad shape of brokenness and incompleteness
I've come to the same conclusion.
For the past couple years, my solution has been to use RHEL clones (CentOS and Oracle Linux) on servers only (multi-user.target).
I've moved all my graphical installations (workstation, laptops, desktop clients) to OpenSUSE Leap + KDE.
Its mostly fine if you use GNOME on RHEL/CentOS. They're packaged by Red Hat, they accept bug reports about issues and stuff like missing dependencies are worked out pretty quickly.
In my experience, Red Hat doesn't do a ton of Desktop testing, they lean on Fedora ironing out all the bugs and lifting the fixes from there.
Almost all of my bugs filed against desktop-related issues are either dropped as WONTFIX or are fixed when RHEL bumps their GNOME version to a newer release. For example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1365967
It's too bad that RH doesn't really have much focus on Desktop/Workstation systems, because an enteprise workstation is actually a useful thing for people who need long term support (1-2 years at least) of a workstation. Ubuntu manages to do it, but unfortunately, most of our engineering software isn't supported on Ubuntu.