Thanks for the A2A.
I kind of agree with Simon Greenwood. CentOS is a server operating system, derived from a niche and enterprise level Linux distribution for servers. For a web developer, CentOS might be the target platform to run the final product. But CentOS is certainly not a desktop distribution.
Web development has a wide range these days. But the process of development usually happens on desktop. And there are better choices out there for desktop. I wouldn’t use Ubuntu though. A few years back it would have been. But not these days. It might be often used with Cloud service and modern web applications. But especially on desktop there is a lot of experimenting and it has tons of glitches these days and tends to break beyond repair upon upgrade.
Better alternatives? Hmm… hard to say these days. The reason being, that on one hand you would want to be on the newer end of things. The problem with that is, that this often causes a lot of trouble for users and developers. So, it depends.
If web development means stuff like basic websites and (somewhat) stable technology like maybe say PHP or Java, I’d say, maybe Manjaro is a good starting point for desktop. If we are talking like Node, React and what not… this is where it gets complicated. Because these are under development themselves. So, in this case, choosing a distro is the easier part and I would still give Manjaro a chance. But according problems should be expected. Not so much because of the distro, but because the frameworks and libraries themselves are still under heavy development and not mature and stable.
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