[deanhills]

Well CentOS 7 has a deprecation date pretty far away in 2024, so it's enough time to keep using CentOS 7 for now. I never really used CentOS 8 in production and well with the release of CentOS Stream it's having a speedy deprecation. 

I guess you might wanna try out stream itself ... I haven't personally but that doesn't mean it won't be as good as the CentOS releases till now. Maybe it is even better, afterall it's the same Devs working on the OS. 

Anyway good luck with finding yourself a new OS!

Aha .... good news to note that CentOS 7 has still life left on it until 2024.  I'm on CentOS 7.  When I tried CentOS 8, I found there were a few applications I had that didn't want to work with CentOS 8.  The first one was installation of python for running the speedtest script.  Then from one pre condition that was needed to another, there continued to be issues to contend with.  So I'm sticking with CentOS 7 for now.  Hopefully by the time I have to change, there will be something better around.  Maybe Rocky Linux! Wonder whether there will be a huge learning curve involved and whether it will be an easy migration from CentOS 7?  Maybe @fChk will know?

Wait a minute! Looks like CentOS 8 support has been cut down from 2029 to December 2021. So CentOS 7 is going to be supported past CentOS 8 to 2024. Interesting. All the reason to use CentOS 7 in preference to CentOS 8.

The CentOS project recently announced a shift in strategy for CentOS. Whereas previously CentOS existed as a downstream build of its upstream vendor (it receives patches and updates after the upstream vendor does), it will be shifting to an upstream build (testing patches and updates before inclusion in the upstream vendor). Additionally, support for CentOS Linux 8 has been cut short, from May 31, 2029 to December 31, 2021.

Source: https://rockylinux.org/