Solus vs Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Which means you don't have to suffer from version to version updates that can break it.

The installation procedure for this distribution is quite simple. It's GUI based and all you have to do is to follow the instructions given by the installation window itself.

The default desktop environment used by Solus is called Budgie and is quite nice and minimalistic.

The system itself is very stable. All packages in the repository seem to be carefully picked, well prepared and run stable.

System boots quickly and stays responsive. Does what operating system should do, and does it really well.

The software center makes it really easy to install the latest software through Snappy and Flatpak. Including third party software.

Very stable and well curated.

It may not have the most obscure packages, but the packages it does have is a good number of everything a Linux user needs. Gamers, developers, desktop users, etc. all have the necessary packages and then some. The packages themselves are integrated perfectly and are very well updated.

The default desktop experience on the Budgie version is very clean and streamlined. Although the Budgie DE isn't the most customisable, but it's customisable enough for me to recreate the desktop style of ElementaryOS with the dock and bar at the top.

So you won't have to enable PPAs or extra repos for that.

The software is well curated in the repos, you have access to flatpaks and snaps, so virtually, all the software you'll ever need is there for you.

The only community who values the newcomers. Very helpful community.

Each released version of RHEL is supported for around ten years by Red Hat with constant bug fixes and security updates.

RHEL favours stability over being up-to date. For this reason it ships with packages that may be up to two years behind in order to ensure stability over everything else.

Using older versions for packages means that they have been thoroughly tested and used in production for quite some time, and are ensured to play well with each-other.

This strategy has paid off quite a lot in the past. One example is the Heartbleed bug which left RHEL unaffected since it was using a two-year old OpenSSL library which did not have the bug.

RHEL has several built-in solutions for disaster recovery. For example, it comes with pacemaker which can be configured to manage multi-site and and stretch clusters across multiple geographical locations for disaster recovery and scalability. It can also be configured to trigger notifications when the status of a managed cluster changes by using enhanced pacemaker alerts.

Since RHEL backports all updates and bug fixes to older versions in order to maintain package compatibility across releases, applications hosted on Red Hat Linux don't have to worry about potential breaking changes in libraries they use, especially language libraries.

This distro is by far the one with the largest number of certified server-class hardware.

Comes with built-in management tools for containers (Atomic CLI, Cockpit) and a container runtime in the form of Docker engine.