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While reading an article in The Register yesterday:

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy
ASWF is the open source foundation run by the folks who give out Oscars, and you've probably seen the results
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/01/aswf_foss_oscars/

The first three paragraphs got me interested:

"Ubuntu Summit 2024 One of the things we didn't expect to see at this year's Ubuntu get-together was a chart showing Rocky Linux's dominance. Another was demos of whizz-bang special movie effects with open source componentry at their heart.
The Ubuntu Summit 2024 was in the Hague this year, and the Reg FOSS desk was invited along. One of the first full-length sessions was presented by David Morin, executive director of the Academy Software Foundation, introducing his organization in a talk about Open Source Software for Motion Pictures.
It struck us in several different ways. One was that right at the start, Morin linked to the Visual Effects Society's Studio Workstation 2024 Linux Report, highlighting the market share pie-chart, showing Rocky Linux 9 with at some 58 percent and the RHELatives in general at 90 percent of the market. Ubuntu 22 and 24 – the report's nomenclature, not this vulture's – got just 10.5 percent. We certainly didn't expect to see that at an Ubuntu event."

Particularly this: "pie-chart, showing Rocky Linux 9 with at some 58 percent and the RHELatives in general at 90 percent of the market. Ubuntu 22 and 24 – the report's nomenclature, not this vulture's – got just 10.5 percent"

Any advice regarding "Rocky Linux"? Anyone using it? And looking at this:

Desktop/Workstation Live Images
Select a version:Rocky Linux 9
Rocky Linux 8
v9.4
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GNOME
GNOME (Lite)
KDE
XFCE
MATE
Cinnamon

Which of the above desktops would you recommend? I used KDE many years ago, but ended up not liking what it evolved into.

- Lyle

[tlug] Rocky Linux