evgenymagata wrote:Even if the backported Gen7 CPU support: Just Google it, CentOs is NOT a recommended distro for very recent Hardware Architectures. I have no idea why you try to make people believe otherwise.
I'm not trying to make people believe anything. I'm trying to inform you to the development practices of Red Hat, and by derivation CentOS, as well as provide fact responses to your claims. I'm not sure what you deem "recent". If you want bleeding edge day zero support, use Arch. I'm not saying there aren't certain hardware architectures that are unsupported, but you're making it seem like everything 'new' isn't. Outside of Zen 2 and EPYC Rome, there really hasn't been any 'new' hardware recently. Particularly anything that requires a substantial patch to the kernel.
evgenymagata wrote:But not Resolve.
Resolve works perfectly fine on CentOS. Ask anyone here using it, and ask Blackmagic Design who develops on it.
evgenymagata wrote:EDIT: What i ALSO dont understand, if you like yum/rpm etc. even then you can just use Fedora or Suse. almost everything will work like you are used to from CentOS but you have a much more modern distro.
They have different use cases. Both in terms of support, practice, and releases. With a distribution like RHEL you are guaranteed a system that is rock solid (usually after the X.2 release) and will not fail (usually). You get a long lifetime out of the product that means a lot for users. it provides a stable development platform that won't break in the next year with the next release. For people that prefer long term stability, predictability, for both production and development purposes, it's a great platform. Fedora is the upstream of RHEL, so if you use that you'll know what will be in the next version. But it can be iffy at times and the development tools move/change too rapidly for the M&E industry. Some environments will actually mix the two together, and use Fedora client side with RHEL server side.
At the end of the day it's really up to the user. But it's better to be well informed when making these decisions.
Cheers,
Mike