On 10/15/19 3:18 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > >> CentOS is a desktop distribution in the sense that chickens fly and >> horses swim. Of course you can turn it into a full-blown >> bells-and-whistles desktop by fine-tuning the configuration and adding >> lots of third-party stuff. I've done this myself for years, here for >> example: >> >> https://www.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-entreprise-centos-7-kde/ >> >> On the other hand, CentOS out of the box is a rather frustrating >> experience on the desktop. > > I've always disagreed with this view, however common it appears to be. > > RHEL is sold as an Enterprise OS for Server, Cloud, Desktop, Laptop. > CentOS > surely shouldn't be seen any differently. > > What is it that makes CentOS a bad desktop OS? > > I can install CentOS 8 on my laptop now, with a perfectly usable > desktop, and > 10 years of support. Google Chrome runs just fine, and I can use > containers > via singularity on top for anything exotic. > > What exactly am I missing out on by not running something else? > They are talking about a fact that RHEL (and CentOS) do not provide packages that have non-FOSS licenses, like Broadcom drivers, video codecs, flash, etc., and you need 3rd-party repo like Nux-dextop, rpmfusion for those, while almost all other distro's do provide those packages and you only need to select non-FOSS packages from OFFICIALY SUPPORTED repositories. > jh > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant