Is CentOS good for daily use?

Question

We all know that when we study the RHCT, we need the CentOS to help us.

However, as an ordinary OS, it is just as good as Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE, Mint or even Redhat?

Can we use it like any other Linux, especially when surfing the web?

Answer 1

Forget Fedora...it uses GNOME3, which is almost as bad as Ubuntu's Unity interface (it's honestly difficult for me to decide which interface I dislike more). openSUSE is great if you can get used to YaST (which isn't nearly as nice as Debian's Aptitude, which is what Ubuntu uses)...I would never pay for Red Hat as a consumer since Fedora is basically the same thing in the end, but for free. If you still want to use Ubuntu's awesome features, get Kubuntu, which at least uses KDE, or Xubuntu which uses XFCE (which is what Debian is converting to over GNOME actually). If you have no idea how Linux works, then go with Mint since it's pretty hard to screw up your system on that.

Answer 2

Centos is RHEL except with the trademarks and the copyrighted material replaced by designs more suitable for free public use. Fedora of course is the testing version of RHEL. In other words, yes. It's more stable than Fedora in fact. Believe me, I gave up on Fedora in 2007 and played with CentOS on a live CD this year -- before giving up for the exact same reasons I gave up on Fedora: I don't like having so many resources diverted from my applications programs. It has a very heavy footprint. So do Ubuntu and Suse, by the way. So I'd say it IS Fedora/RHEL, it's BETTER than Suse or Ubuntu and COMPARABLE to, depending how you work with them, Debian Mint or Megaia.

Answer 3

I use CentOS everyday and like it more than Ubuntu and Fedora. Its more simple gui but has all the things i need.

Answer 4

You'll have to manually install media codecs, and install additional repositories to stay up-to-date with applications like Firefox, but CentOS can certainly be used as a traditional Linux desktop; many people run it as their main desktop due to it's extremely long support cycle.

Answer 5

maximum suitable ones are: paid (u . s .) pink Hat = unfastened Fedora paid (u . s .) SUSE = unfastened OpenSUSE paid (uk) Canonical = unfastened Debian / Ubuntu in case you pay you get extra advantageous help and licencing