sovietknuckles [they/them]

Whatever terms they want to use for CentOS Stream is fine with me. The main thing I was trying to communicate is that it’s not worth using, and nothing in the linked post contradicts that

In the Ubuntu world we would go to an LTS release but on the RPM/Dnf world is there any other distro apart from CentOS Stream?

CentOS Stream is not a distro, it’s the carcass of the distro that Red Hat killed, CentOS. Stream is a beta testing program for RHEL, no more, no less. CentOS wasn’t even a Red Hat project originally, but Red Hat hired the maintainers of CentOS and gained control over it.

When Red Hat killed CentOS, going revising CentOS 8’s previous end of life from the end of May 2029 to the end of December 2021, one of the original founders of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, started Rocky Linux as a replacement for what CentOS was supposed to be, an open source, binary-compatible version of RHEL. Rocky Linux works well for this purpose. I’ve heard that Alma Linux does, as well, but I have never tried it.

I know that CentOS stream is more kind of a rolling release but… feels like an LTS distro in practice… or it is just me?

CentOS Stream should not be used for anything beyond hobby projects. It is, by nature, buggier than Rocky Linux or RHEL, and it was never intended to be stable. And there’s no reason to use it: If you want more stable versions than Fedora, Rocky Linux works just fine.

Do you need the Windows partition for something specific? I used to dual-boot because I needed Windows for a previous job but have been Linux-only for years

Nope, drivers are platform-specific.

That sounds right

This might hurt future publishers of whistleblowers. Does this set the precedent that publishing info from whistleblowers can be prosecuted as espionage?

SMS auth is going away,

OP is looking for an alternative to MS Authenticator. If this works as an alternative temporarily, they may still consider it worth it.

[I]t is not considered secure in the last few environments I have worked in

Yes, SMS 2FA is usually not secure due being vulnerable to SIM card swapping attacks, that’s why I explicitly recommended using a VOIP number, which would not be vulnerable to SIM card swapping attacks.

Your employer might use MS Authenticator but still let you do call or SMS 2FA. If you use a VOIP number, it won’t be vulnerable to SIM card swapping attacks.

Startpage (has Google search results) or Google with private browsing haven’t given me the new AI suggestions so far