Rocky Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Rocky Linux Average rating 8.9 from 56 review(s) What are your thoughts on Rocky Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 9.58.10 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 9.5 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-03-07 Votes: 2 Rocky Linux is a polished, "ready" Linux distro that is basically and functionally RedHat Enterprise Linux. It isn't just TRYING to be RHEL, it most certainly is and using it in many capacities shows it professionalism and intuitive nature. The "just works" tag is not enough, as Rocky does that and also instills confidence as the day's needed work comes and goes. Installation and then setup leaves nothing to be desired, as all expectations align as the user desires, with nothing to do but move from one step to the next. Daily usage makes you forget about the distro as all tasks are met with efficiency without burdens or workarounds as some distros seem proud to have waiting; they're not needed in a full-on user friendly distro. This rating of 10 is quite natural for Rocky Linux 9.5. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9.5 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-25 Votes: 13 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9.5 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-04 Votes: 13 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 56 reader reviews of Rocky Linux...