Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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Trusted Base for Creating Deployable Applications
What do you like best about the product?
Wide user base. Good packaging and a wide selection of packages available in the broader ecosystem. Solid documentation. Also stable to build on.
What do you dislike about the product?
The same thing that makes it stable can make it hard to use the latest tooling in the later releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having a system that is Deployable in high security environments.
Linux over Windows
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to customize my experience in a desktop environment in Paramount in my workflows. Development is my passion and is so much easier than on windows.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't dislikes RHEL in anyway. I only dislikes the fact that business are scared of migrating from the Windows Desktop environment to Linux.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Server virtualization
Great to work with sometimes a pain on major upgrades
What do you like best about the product?
Consistency across versions and stability
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial setup with subscription manager can be overwhelming
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows me to have consistency across infrastructure
RHEL in Large Global Enterprise
What do you like best about the product?
Team is collaborative, adheres to industry trends, secure, and supported. Always pushing OS in enterprise to the next level.
What do you dislike about the product?
Always works best in Red Hat ecosystem. Secondary systems are always afterthought which disadvantages users not locked into the ecosystem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business requires a supported OS image that is safe and secure. RHEL makes everything easy all in one package.
Smooth and stable
What do you like best about the product?
Red Hat has in our experience always been smooth with very predictable outcomes, and has proven itself to be a stable platform to build our applications on.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes patching can be problematic, and the kernel feature set can lag behind other distros
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We uses it as the basis for our Percona Database Cluster
RHEL is secured and great to use
What do you like best about the product?
The security it brings to the table and it's enterprise ready
What do you dislike about the product?
The package management aspect of that needs improvement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Customer use cases
RHEL Review
What do you like best about the product?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a lot of cool features. The first and foremost being the support that Red Hat provides and the documentation. I've been able to find all my issues with Red Hat's documentation, which has been easy to navigate.
What do you dislike about the product?
As far as the dislikes, there are not many that come to mind. I've had a longer history with debian based systems, and only recently started using RHEL. The dislikes were more of a lack of experience than dislikes of the actual product itself.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat has benefited my company by enabling our team to upgrade our existing RHEL 6 ,and even RHEL 7 machines to RHEL 8, and now RHEL 9 efficiently as well as migrate the CentOS servers to RHEL with minor to no issues, that weren't hard to resolve.
Good for Gov Work, fast deployment
What do you like best about the product?
Good community base, support with applications like Chef configuration management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive license. Not fun to work with on ARM Macbooks with configuration management tools like Chef
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure and manageable
RedHat Linux user
What do you like best about the product?
Enterprise features, regular patches and support
What do you dislike about the product?
There are not much downsides per se that I can think of
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it solves my enterprise OS need
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Rock-Solid Foundation
What do you like best about the product?
RHEL is a the best solution for real-life enterprise application. Its stability and security are unmatched, making it my go-to for mission-critical systems. I's really easy to use once you’re familiar with RPM-based ecosystems—tools like YUM/DNF simplify package management. The subscription model ensures timely updates and access to Red Hat’s stellar support, which has saved me hours of troubleshooting. Integration with enterprise tools (think OpenShift, Ansible, or cloud platforms) feels seamless, and SELinux’s granular security controls are a lifesaver. For daily use, it’s reliable enough that I rarely second-guess its performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve is steep for people new to RPM distributions. While powerful, SELinux and firewall-cmd can feel overwhelming without Red Hat’s training. The UI feels dated compared to Ubuntu or Fedora, which might deter people used to polished GUIs. Licensing costs add up quickly for small businesses, and the subscription activation process is clunky—I’ve lost time untangling portal issues. Out-of-the-box software is often older for stability’s sake, which means manually adding repos for newer apps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly the integration with Ansible and containerized platforms.
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