Hey all, I just got a job as a junior sysadmin and I was looking for some advice as to what distro I should run on my company laptop. They come with Windows installed, but apparently I can put whatever I want on there. I use Arch for my personal laptop and on all of my home servers, but I wonder if it would be prudent to use a different distro at work.
I'll be supporting mostly CentOS and RHEL servers and maybe the occaisional Ubuntu one, so my first inclination is to use Fedora or something similar. But what I really want is something that is rock solid. There's also the idea of 'eating your own dog food' and using the same or similar distro on my workstation as on the servers I'll be maintaining, but Fedora is using a whole new package manager now and would CentOS really work as a desktop workstation?
Also, I switched back to Arch for my home server because Ubuntu kept breaking (or more likely, I kept breaking it, but same result). I'm most familiar and comfortable with Arch so maybe that would be the safest choice?
What do you guys and gals think?
EDIT: Thanks for all of the great advice, much appreciated. Looks like everyone is saying Fedora or CentOS. I'll try out Fedora and if it gives me too much trouble I'll switch to CentOS.
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