The two major benefits of RedHat seem to be:

• Dedicated support
• Long term stable

Now LTS is provided by others but the support isn't always there. A lot of enterprises like the support as sort of an insurance if they lose their experts.

Personally I don't agree with enterprises that think that way, but it is the reason it has stuck around so long.

what’s typically an adversarial relationship between security teams and the people building and operating the network

While this is definitely a factor I'd place the issue one more level up. Businesses typically do not prioritize security at all. This then causes an adversarial relationship. Ops team has kpi/goals to get shit done and none for doing it well or securely so understandably they don't want to "waste" time with the security team's requests. This of course assuming there is a security team at all or that the ops team isn't outsourced and gives even less of a shit what the quality/security is

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And on a more devops front k9s https://k9scli.io/

I tried to use it as a daily driver at the beginning of this year. The biggest showstopper for me was the modem randomly stopping and sometimes requiring a device restart.

I've often seen set ups where Prod is RedHat because support, and Test and Dev environments are CentOS to avoid the fees on less important environments.

It was dark and rainy

Which is probably how it happened but yea doesn't seem like Google's fault.

Interesting, wasn't expecting to see openSUSE as a recommendation here. It isn't one I've dabbled with much. Might have to give it a try sometime. For the record I'm not hugely looking for change just interested in what others are using instead of debain/Ubuntu

What would you recommend here instead? Or rather what are you using for your daily driver?