Microsoft has about 15 updates to windows 10 maybe more.  It has one
theme good or bad.  It is moron aware so it fits a lot of the
population.

We are still using RHEL 6.5 upgraded to 6.10 so we have the 32 libs for
a lot of our engineering cad packages.

In the lab is a 7.6 box running that is used for the TI processor stuff.
The main server is SL 6.2 -> SL 6.10.  Works well.

Rocky we have not evaluated yet.

Our new box is an 8 core processor with 32 G of memory - almalinux is
going to be installed shortly.  Mainly to ditch the idiot Gnome desktop.
We have evaluated almalinux 8.4 without a desktop and as a command line
driven device it really works well and is stable.  It also has the
RedHat built in flaw.  When in the manual-option it will wipe out you
file system completely, including the disk that contains the
install .iso.

I told the alma developers about it and gave them an example and they
shot the messenger.  Just like the kids at Fedora.
Formula on how to kill a linux OS.  I mean wipe all the disks attached.
Remove a Software package, change you mind, reinstall it, Remove it and
any disk attached is gone - wiped clean.

This is why we have not moved forward.  Some of our engineers are pretty
inventive and like to change things on their computers.  We do not
discourage it.  The core file system is the same for back up purposes
but almost anything else is done.

This puts us in a sort of stop mode for upgrading to a new linux.

The end of our fooling around is pretty near and the thought is to
migrate to an apple. 
The SL relationship served us well.  The community was always a great
help, we thank them,  but there is not a clear path to the future.  We
just can't wait any longer to get developers to fix core issues.  This
problem started when IBM rewrote the Linux code in C++ at start of RHEL
7.  This is a guess because things worked perfectly until then.

If the upstream developers are interested I can give them an example of
how to wipe a linux file system.  

Merry Christmas
Larry Linder
MicroControls LLC