Rocky Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Rocky Linux Average rating 8.9 from 53 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: -- 9.48.10 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: 8.10 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-07-19 Votes: 29 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 8.10 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-06-25 Votes: 22 I've been using Rocky Linux for about two years to manage various services like Apache, Samba, and mail server configurations. Recently, I decided to set up an OpenVPN server. It's been over two weeks since I configured the OpenVPN server (version 2.4.12) with EasyRSA on Rocky Linux 8.10 (minimal). The installation process for both the system (Anaconda makes it a breeze) and the OpenVPN server was remarkably straightforward and user-friendly. The performance has been reliable, and the setup was smooth, reaffirming my confidence in Rocky Linux for handling diverse server tasks. Both server-to-client and client-to-client connections are working perfectly, Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9.4 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-06-20 Votes: 21 Great distro. Speedy, not too heavy on system resources- I don't like gnome so I install another desktop environment like KDE and wipe anything to do with gnome out of the system, and it performs a lot better, plus KDE is lighter in resources than gnome and has tons of customization. KDE is also good towards its users and listens to their feedback and actively participates in the community, and with gnome, it's a dark, hostile, bleak environment. With Rocky Linux, I was worried with the whole change in CentOS and feared that would happenm one day, so I'm happy to of found Rocky, it's lead by the developer of CentOS before he was pushed out in favor of one of Red Hat's hardliners, so it's comfortable knowing the developer of CentOS is continung on and will get the respect he deserves. Rocky is also a non-profit organization, so that's even more community friendly and helpful, The developers engage with the community and are friendly, helpful and listen to the community's feedback and aren't hostile to that, the community is great as well and helpful. When I was trying the gnome desktop, I had some crashes and free-ups, but that's the fault of the gnome developers and not Rocky's. I do wish Rocky would switch to using KDE as the default desktop, it's so much easier to use and user friendly and doesn't have all of the dependency errors and deep lock-in that gnome forces on its users. Overall, I think this is a great distro, I do recommend Rocky Linux. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 53 reader reviews of Rocky Linux...