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Have. I like btrfs, you only get that with Oracle and they have philosophical issues, but also random brokenness with things like selinux policies.
Old packages aren’t really an issue for me, but missing packages that haven’t been put into EPEL can be a pain. Depends what you want to accomplish or need.
I feel similarly about Fedora’s quick EOL, which was how I got onto an enterprise desktop distro too. The paper cuts are why I ended up switching to Mint.
You can use btrfs with any distro. It's just easier to install on some than others. Ubuntu and Mint will automatically create subvolumes for root and home if you install on a btrfs partition. With Debian, you have to manually create and mount all of the subvolumes before starting the installation.
You can't really use it with redhat. You can swap the kernel and install the user space tools, but then you won't get support from redhat.
Is anyone here using RHEL support, and is also able to mess around with their partitions?
The free licences are unsupported, and I doubt people are dropping $300+ for RHEL every few for their personal desktop.