CentOS - is it really that bad?

[Phil99]

At university the preferred operating system is either Windows or CentOS; I've currently got Windows Vista on my lab machine and for my work it's pretty terrible so I've requested a change to CentOS.

When mentioning this to others I get shocked reactions as to why on earth their preferred distro is CentOS and one person even compared it to Windows ME.

Is it really that bad? For my work I can't see the distribution really being that much of an issue, but I'm just curious as to why people would have such negative feelings towards it?

 

[Phil99]

Thanks for the responses. Some of the people suggesting that CentOS was poor like to have the very latest builds of everything they run so I guess it's unsuitable for them hence their negative attitude towards it.