User Reviews of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) & Windows 10

Updated April 2025

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) review

Bruce Lundberg
Bruce Lundberg
Linux HPC Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Reliable patch management, high uptime, and incredible knowledge base
In terms of security, it does a lot of things that most people still turn off. SELinux is turned on by default. They have pretty good firewall rules in their defaults. The audit rules always take tweaking, but, overall, it comes out of the box not too bad. I used to write scripts to harden them from there. There are multiple ways to...
Windows 10 review

Akos Szirmai
Akos Szirmai
Application Development Specialist at Field consulting Ltd.
Easy installation and the initial setup time is reasonable
Stability can be an issue. I have to restart it every two days. And the boot time is quite long. My laptop's old, has no SSD, and is just a traditional Winchester. Had desktops with Windows 11 and SSDs, much better performance. But hardware limitations on my current laptop lead to stability and response issues. It's more like the whole...

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