Big companies like RHEL because it's stable. This stability mostly comes from shipping with older time-tested packages. IBM recently bought Red Hat and announced that they're going to change RHEL into a "cutting-edge" release. This is scaring...
It was 'new build' time for me this past weekend, "on the horizon" be damned. My trusty 4790k & GTX 1080 was just not cutting it for VR.
Here's to no regrets... 🍻