Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 30, 2025first mention
Oct 10, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“settled with RHEL”
former distro-hopperon “Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?”
“I chose redhat because its what I've been using for over a decade at work and feels like home.”
uses Red Hat at work for over a decadeswitched from macOSon “Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own you…”
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“RedHat backports security fixes into the original code, so open source package updates don’t break your application”
runs production deploymentson “A Love Letter to FreeBSD”
Caveats and dissent
“the issue you described has happened to me on:”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload 1 mention
- Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive? 1 mention
- Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11 1 mention
- Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it 1 mention
- A Love Letter to FreeBSD 1 mention
Also written as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Data: red-hat-enterprise-linux.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“the issue you described has happened to me on:”
“it runs a rhel (I have them for free as a partner)”
“settled with RHEL”
“for any serious shop willing to spend money on support I’d probably go with RHEL anyway”
“I chose redhat because its what I've been using for over a decade at work and feels like home.”
“RedHat backports security fixes into the original code, so open source package updates don’t break your application”