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What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Rocky Linux is its combination of enterprise-grade stability, predictable performance, and long-term reliability. In environments where consistency is important, Rocky Linux provides a dependable platform for running applications, development tools, and infrastructure services without frequent disruptions.

One feature that has provided significant value is compatibility with enterprise Linux ecosystems. This has made it easier to deploy and maintain systems using familiar administration tools, security practices, and package management workflows. As a result, system setup and ongoing maintenance require less effort and are more consistent across environments.

I also appreciate the operating system's stability during updates. Critical workloads can continue running with confidence because the platform prioritizes reliability over rapid feature changes. This has reduced troubleshooting time and allowed more focus on productive work rather than system maintenance.

The resource efficiency is another advantage. Rocky Linux performs well on both physical and virtual environments, making it useful for development systems, testing environments, and server workloads. This flexibility has helped maximize infrastructure utilization while maintaining strong performance.

Documentation and community support have also been valuable. When configuring services, troubleshooting issues, or implementing new solutions, the available resources help accelerate deployment and reduce learning time. An unexpected benefit has been how easily standardized configurations can be maintained across multiple systems, improving consistency and simplifying administration.

What do you dislike about the product?

The documentation is useful, but some advanced configuration tasks still require familiarity with command-line administration and system management concepts. More guided setup workflows could help reduce the learning curve.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before using Rocky Linux, maintaining stable and consistent environments across servers and virtual machines often required additional effort, especially when balancing reliability, security updates, and long-term support requirements. Frequent platform changes or compatibility concerns could increase maintenance work and impact operational efficiency.

Rocky Linux solves these challenges by providing a stable enterprise Linux platform with predictable updates and long-term support. Instead of spending significant time addressing unexpected operating system changes, I can focus on managing applications, infrastructure, and project-related tasks with greater confidence in system stability.

One of the biggest benefits has been improved consistency across environments. Development, testing, and production systems can be maintained using similar configurations and management practices, reducing configuration drift and simplifying administration. This has helped reduce troubleshooting time and improved deployment reliability.

The operating system also helps address infrastructure cost and resource utilization challenges. Rocky Linux performs efficiently on both physical servers and virtual machines, allowing available hardware resources to be used effectively while maintaining dependable performance for business applications and services.

Another advantage is simplified system management. Package management, security updates, and system maintenance follow well-established enterprise Linux practices, making ongoing administration more predictable and reducing operational complexity. This has helped improve system reliability while lowering the effort required for routine maintenance

What do you like best about the product?

My favorite thing about Rocky Linux is its stability and long-term support, which make it compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. The system offers robust security and can be utilized on servers as well.

What do you dislike about the product?

nothing to add this time from my side everything seems fine

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Introduction of Rocky Linux addresses the problem of offering a robust Linux operating system for enterprise-level usage that offers stability, long-term support, and compatibility. This is advantageous to the user in that they get an effective, secure, and affordable OS to perform tasks on.

What do you like best about the product?

The response time and better OS stability

What do you dislike about the product?

Stability at High scale, will be better for recommending at production level more

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of the challenges I faced while using Rocky Linux was package and dependency compatibility during the migration from other Enterprise Linux distributions. Some third-party repositories and software packages required additional configuration or manual dependency resolution before they could be installed successfull

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about Rocky Linux is how stable and predictable it feels, especially coming from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We switched over without too much trouble and honestly for most workloads it behaves almost the same, which made things a lot easier.

Performance has been solid so far, I’m running it on a couple of servers and also using it personally and it just stays out of the way. Updates are consistent and I haven’t run into anything major breaking after upgrades, which is always a concern with server environments.

Another thing I like is the cost side, not having to deal with licensing like RHEL but still getting a similar experience is a big plus. It also integrates well with the usual tools we already use, so there wasn’t much need to change our setup. Overall it just feels reliable, which is really what I want from an OS like this.

What do you dislike about the product?

One thing that can be a bit frustrating with Rocky Linux is that sometimes you have to spend extra time figuring things out compared to something like RHEL, especially when it comes to documentation or smaller edge cases. It’s not a huge issue, but it does slow things down a bit when you are troubleshooting.

We are also using LXD for containers, and right now Rocky 10 images are not available there, only Rocky 9. Because of that, all our project containers are still running on Rocky 9, which isn’t ideal since we have already started using Rocky 10 in other places.

Other than that, there are occasional minor issues here and there, like certain packages or repos not being immediately available or needing a bit of manual setup. Nothing major, just small things that add up sometimes.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

For us it mainly solved the need for a stable and free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Licensing was getting a bit restrictive, so moving to Rocky Linux gave us almost the same environment without the cost, which is a big win from a ROI point of view.

Since it’s RHEL compatible, we didn’t have to change much in terms of setup or tools. Most of our existing configs and workflows just worked, so the transition was smoother than expected. That saved a lot of time compared to switching to something completely different.

It also helps with consistency across environments. We’re using it both for servers and some personal setups, so it’s easier to manage and maintain everything in a similar way. Overall it just gives us a reliable base to run things without worrying too much about stability or unexpected issues.

What do you like best about the product?

Rocky Linux provides a stable, secure, and production-ready enterprise operating system at no cost, whether you run it in the cloud or on-prem. Most hyperscalers support the operating system natively, which helps mitigate open-source support risk for critical business applications.

What do you dislike about the product?

Rocky linux being a open source and downstream for red hat,there is delay for every security patch or updates.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Rocky is helping us to save lot of money in operating system licensing cost, at the same time offering same value as paid operating systems. We save about 25% of VM cost by using Rocky linux

What do you like best about the product?

This is open-source software, so you can customize it to your liking.

What do you dislike about the product?

It doesn’t have a very compact user guide, so you end up spending hours navigating around just to understand the changes.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The free software adaptation for companies offers a very good opportunity to unify more than one company and to coordinate activities between them through triangulation.

What do you like best about the product?

It opensource, no cost, works as well as commerial red hat linux

What do you dislike about the product?

Downside latest patch is faster with redhat linux.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Rocky Linux provide a solution to replace centos end of life

My main use case for CentOS is that in the past, I used it as a Linux workstation, and currently, I use it as a CentOS server where we require RHEL-based server functionality.

The best features CentOS offers in my experience are that it is reliable, cost-effective, and easy to scale.

When I mention reliability and cost-effectiveness, I explain that our product-based company uses a performance testing tool, so to generate load using the tool, we use CentOS generators, which are also known as VMs. We spin up a number of VMs in different locations such as Central, East, and West. If we purchase a subscription, it requires a good amount of money, but if we use CentOS, it is free of cost, and we can scale from more than 20 to 100 servers.

The biggest benefit of CentOS for my organization is cost saving.

CentOS has made a positive difference for my team and company by making scalability easier. For testing, sometimes we require 50 to 200 servers in different locations, and I can easily spin up and scale in and scale down.

CentOS can be improved, but I have not yet faced any kind of issue or hectic problem.

I have been using CentOS for six plus years.

CentOS is stable in my experience.

CentOS scalability for my needs is easy to scale.

I have not used customer support for CentOS.

I did previously use a different solution before CentOS. Before CentOS, I was not using any solution.

I have seen a return on investment in terms of money saved and fewer employees needed.

Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing for CentOS, there is no cost for licensing or setup pricing, so it is easy to set up and scale up the server.

CentOS is more similar to RHEL. My advice to others looking into using CentOS is that if they require RHEL-based or RHEL flavor OS, they should definitely go for CentOS because it is free; if they use RHEL, it requires a subscription. I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.

On-premises

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

RHEL compatibility. Large userbase to dig for assistance

What do you dislike about the product?

I have not developed any dislikes yet for this.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Needed to replace CentOS 7 when it was going EOL and Centos Stream was not an option for me.

What do you like best about the product?

PROFESSIONAL USES ARE A BINARY-COMPATIBLE REPLACEMENT FOR RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX. PROFESSIONAL USE IS STABLE WITH LONG-TERM SUPPORT, SINCE EACH RELEASE HAS A 10-YEAR LIFECYCLE.

What do you dislike about the product?

ROCKY LINUX RECEIVES UPDATES EVERY SIX MONTHS. CONTINUITY DEPENDS ON THE COMMUNITY AND THIRD-PARTY FUNDING.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

PROFESSIONAL USES ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD AND USE, SINCE IT IS A COMMUNITY SUPPORTED SYSTEM. PROFESSIONAL USE PROVIDE WORKLOAD VERSATILITY AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING.