Which linux distro is more conducive for learning the Python programming language?

Barry barry at barrys-emacs.org
Thu Aug 4 14:12:17 EDT 2022



> On 4 Aug 2022, at 09:48, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <tdtemccna at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 at 13:02, Kushal Kumaran <kushal at locationd.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 04 2022 at 10:22:41 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <tdtemccna at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Subject: Which linux distro is more conducive for learning the Python
>>> programming language?
>>> 
>>> Good day from Singapore,
>>> 
>>> May I know which linux distro is more conducive for learning the
>>> Python programming language?
>>> 
>>> Since I have absolutely and totally FREE RHEL developer subscription
>>> (I don't need to spend a single cent), can I use Red Hat Enterprise
>>> Linux version 9.0 to learn Python?
>>> 
>>> Is it the most popular linux distro for learning Python?
>>> 
>>> I just want to know which linux distro and version is more conducive
>>> for learning Python. Because there are thousands of linux distros out
>>> there. And I just want to settle down on a particular linux distro and
>>> version.
>>> 
>> 
>> The best one would be whatever you happen to have installed and for
>> which you understand system administration.  Beyond that, distribution
>> choice matters very little.  Every distribution I've used ships python3
>> packages, which was fine for learning the language.
>> 
>> --
>> regards,
>> kushal
> 
> Noted with thanks Kushal. Since I can download FREE copies of RHEL
> 9.0, I will use it then.

I consider rhel 9 is an old os. I would suggest using fedora over rhel.
Fedora 36 has python 3.10 and the when fedora 37 is released it will have python 3.11.
And fedora is free as well.

Barry


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