Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ?

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Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave..

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

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Can't really go wrong with Debian or Ubuntu server LTS

You can definitely go wrong with an Ubuntu server

How? I've run several for years with no issue. They're as stable as a rock

snaps are pretty insecure.

Snaps are pretty terrible IMO, so I usually end up bootstrapping a custom Ubuntu image without snap for this reason (and others) for my cloud images. Definitely not general purpose though.

*citation needed

Go to the snap site and try to find a security section that describes how snap packages are signed. You won't be able to find it because it doesn't exist, and they don't highlight their own security vulnerabilities.

What I can cite is how this should work, for example how apt signs all packages by default

Note how in the above doc there's a message

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
...
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?

That doesn't exist in snap because snap does not authenticate downloads. It'll just happily install something maliciously modified.