CentOS

I use CentOS 8 as my dev environment and also connect to the internet. But I only have several data allocations per day, how do I set a maximum data used by my OS every day?

What application should I install?

You will have to boot first into run level 3. That is in Terminal without desktop GUI. Just terminal interface.

To do this. Add `3` to the boot options then install your driver from terminal. it may also be necessary to add `nomodeset` for difficult situations.

Oh I see, isn't it CentOS 8 now ahead of RHEL? So RHEL getting derived now from CentOS starting 8, at least that is what I have read last time from centos website.

Gnome 3.36 provides significant performance improvements. How to update CentOS 8 gnome to 3.36?

Here is my boot menu entry from iso menuentry 'Install CentOS Linux 8 in basic graphics mode from ISO' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { set gfxpayload=keep insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 insmod iso9660 set isofile='/installer/CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso' loopbac...

You may check that the lable should match in EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg from iso and burned version.

Do you now have 4 folders in efi?

Since your latest install is CentOS 8.

Are you still up to this task?

I was installing centos 8 from ISO about 5 times since 2 months ago.

My swap partition is apparently larger than ram. Ram is 16GB while swap is 100GB. So this might be bug? During bootup from hibernation, the system says, decompressing with 4 threads. So I am thinking it compressed it prior. Hibernation and resumption was relatively slower compared to windows. So I a...

That is not the case, its more like Red Hat gets derived from Fedora.

Fedora is the cutting edge distro before making it to RHEL and CentOS.