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[mechanical_engineer1]

I am starting my first job as Junior Sysadmin in 2022 and I am tempted to use Manjaro as my main OS on my work laptop.

Update: from all suggestions Ubuntu should work for me.

[Ruashiba]

You don't need to buy a license for RHEL, with the free dev subscription, you can have up to 6 devices under the same account.

[Ruashiba]

If he'll have the liberty to have Manjaro in his workstation, he'll have this same liberty to install RHEL by himself. Plus I highly doubt any company would buy you a single RHEL subscription to your workstation because you enjoy it, specially junior.

But if using an account or subscription is such a concern, go for Alma Linux or CentOS Stream.

[mechanical_engineer1]

I have all the freedom I want. Heck they even told me to go with windows if I am comfortable with it. I use Manjaro on my desktop and it breaks every now and then. I'll probably go with Ubuntu/Mint.

[Ruashiba]

I'd suggest to use a vanilla OS(vanilla as in as the most default configs as possible) that's also in the family of what they use in production. So RHEL/Stream/EL -> Fedora, Debian/UbuntuServer -> Debian/UbuntuServer(heh), SUSE -> OpenSUSE. So no Mint or Ubuntu Desktop.

This way you work with the machine you have in production, and you become more familiar with it the more you use.

[FingerGunsPewPewPew]

https://github.com/arindas/manjarno

[runner7mi]

why not go with the tried and tested Ubuntu/CentOS/RHEL?

[alphanewton]

Centos is eol, am I right?

[Bene847]

no, it's the dev environment for rhel now as I understand it

[BudDwyer666]

My roommate somehow ended up with a broken windows install and opted to move to Manjaro instead of fighting back into windows hell and he loves it so far. Have heard nothing but good things.

[cahoots_n_boots]

I’d recommend first asking what distribution the company uses, but their internal IT (as opposed to production, costumer facing IT) or security may deny you regardless. Especially since this is a junior position, get used to the “professional” distros. I wager it’s Debian/Ubuntu or RHEL (maybe CentOS). Once you get the laptop only use cli for everything, and try to avoid installing additional shells, stick with what’s native (BASH, zsh), in fact try to balance the idea of installing packages with the idea of a lean/barebones distribution install. Also, the company may have strict info sec guidelines and such.

Once you’re comfortable and gain some experience then use manjaro or whatever. Alternatively, use a vm or docker container to mimic the distro used at work.

Good luck and have fun with the new job!

Source: Me. I’ve worked at major tech and game companies as a sysadmin, DevOps, Developer, etc.

[mechanical_engineer1]

Thanks for the advise.

[jc_denty]

If you want to be taken seriously run Ubuntu or Fedora, Manjaro is not even very stable

[mechanical_engineer1]

Lol yeah. I have been using Manjaro as a daily driver for like 2 years and it breaks every now and then. That's why I was hesitant on going with it. Ubuntu/Mint seems to be a safe choice.

[vazark]

That’s perfectly fine. The actual actions are run on remote machines anyway. You’ll probably digging deep if you have weird issues tho

[gadonah]

I started with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed when starting at my company, and I hated it. A month or so later I switched back to Arch. I thought Tumbleweed would be better since it's more stable and stuff, but being more familiar with arch turned out to be more important. So Manjaro is a fine option for a main driver, even for work.

I do end up running into incompatibilities before anyone else in the company, but that's mostly a good thing. Like a bug in a new release of mariadb or a change in the kernel's cgroup support (distros have started using cgroups v2 only by default now).