I actually tried Alma as a desktop a while back. Lots of coil whine. Fedora -1 version has been the mint zone for me lately. Still get patches and the kernel version I need for my hardware without as many bugs. And when I get newish hardware, latest Fedora typically works the best. They've done some amazing work. Obviously, production server environments are a whole other world. I'd probably use Fedora for my own stuff though.

I was a big centos user (had to for cloud stuff), then switched to rocky but didn't like it much, and now I've been on Fedora 24/7 since 36 I think. For desktops, all but my main workstation (nvidia) are on latest fedora kde and it's been about a year now with no issues on "older" hardware. Wayland + nvidia + old hardware do not mix well in my recent experience. Ava gave me some tips on switching over to RHEL cheaply (or free) so that's probably the next move, but I wanted to see how well Alma does.

Alma was b4b but I think they changed that after RHEL changed the source code requirements or whatever.

But Fedora -1 KDE has been rock solid for me. Which was never the case before recently. They've matured A LOT

Oh yeah, it's still not there for me on my main workstation, but I have complicated hardware requirements apparently XD. It's still miles farther in terms of productivity and user-friendly features, than i've gotten on debian/ubuntu etc. I'm also kind of a gnome hater. I need the buttons, switches and knobs.

I actually left GNOME this year after years of them making the desktop less useful. Like I had to install the KDE file manager to do something so basic graphically that it pissed me off enough to leave lol Haven't looked back this year so far. I still have it on my Fedora TV box though. It's actually decent for that use case.

Yeah my HTPC is also Fedora -1 KDE plasma, and so is my "workshop pc" and it's been great. Although I haven't been able to get KDE connect to work on my old android phone. It's nice to lay in bed and just control your tv from a phone. Something I used to do with windows like 10 years ago.