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Or put another way, Red Hat embraces RISC-V and Rocky copies their homework. Rocky is a leech, at least use Alma.
That sounds personal. Why is Alma better than Rocky? I'm just curious and would never switch from my ride or die Debian.
At a quick glance, they just both seem to be spiritual successors to CentOS
Because Rocky does every trick they can to get Red Hat source RPMs (they're the reason Red Hat put the srpms behind a paywall in the first place). CIQ then undercuts, and sells support for Rocky because they don't do any engineering and don't contribute anything upstream. Alma on the other hand bases on CentOS Stream (which is ABI compatible with RHEL) and maintains its own SIGs and contributes back to the project upstream. Rocky is a leech, but Alma actively makes entire ecosystem better.
There it is
The answer to the question you asked?
Yeah