You are correct - its a IBM/RH problem. 
almaLinux is just the receipient 

A long time ago I used to evaluate Fedora releases - If you offered a
suggestion or cited an issue the Kids at Fedora just shot the messenger
- problem solved.  I just ignored Fedora and assumed it to be a bad
joke.

I am going to sign up to do testing for "almaLinux", I would like to see
it succeed.

On the positive side:
While we were testing almaLinux we did a minimal install and it was
easy, quick, and it all worked.   We were able to use it as a headless
server without any issues.  Its been running for a month with out issue.
The real OS behind the Gnome desktop is alive and well.

My analysis of the install "option" "partition" is that there is some
bad C++ code in the linux world that deals with setting up partitions
and directories.  This same flaw exists in a number of distrobutions as
part of other higher level functions such ad Mint that we evaluated.  My
guess is that it is a bad throw that is never received and never
removed.  In Mint when you remove / install / remove an application it
erases all files on all mounted disks.

Larry Linder

On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 02:43 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 3:31 PM Larry Linder
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Another linux installation and test.
> >
> > AlmaLinux 8.3
> 
> The misfeatures you've groused about are not due to AlmaLinux, they're
> straight RHEL problems. Let's assign blame and credit where they are
> due.
> 
> > Inspecting the directories we found that several mount points were
> > missing and the disks we wanted to mount, no format, to preserve the
> > data were empty. This even included the disk that contained the .iso
> > file we installed from!  This is really bull shit code.
> > How can on take a very simple working function that has worked for 20
> > years and basterdize it to the point of being less than worthless.  Does
> > anyone check their work - it compiles without errors - ship it - Why do
> > you hire minions?
> 
> That is the fault of feature craze going on with anaconda and breaking
> some formerly useful features. You can defeat this by using a
> kickstart file, but it's a pain.
> 
> > 6. To be kind to the Gnome desktop - it is another convuleted ugly
> > abortion.  To get simple stuff done takes a dozen mouse clicks.  You
> > can't easily setup anything.  You are simply using the IBM computer -
> > just like "Bill's" computer.
> 
> Oh, heck, that's why I publish RPMs for tvtwm.