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Serious question: What are the advantages of Ubuntu on a server over, say, Debian?
Ubuntu has more frequent releases, but since people are using Ubuntu LTS that's a very good question considering Debian also has LTS releases on the same frequency.
Edit: Oh, server. Forgot that context.
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Ubuntu has more frequent releases, but since people are using Ubuntu LTS that's a very good question considering Debian also has LTS releases on the same frequency.
Ubuntu constantly backports certain applications like Firefox for LTS so you don't have a two year old browser. Does Debian LTS provide that? Edit: Oh, server. Forgot that context.
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Ubuntu has more frequent releases, but since people are using Ubuntu LTS that's a very good question considering Debian also has LTS releases on the same frequency.
Ubuntu constantly backports certain applications like Firefox for LTS so you don't have a two year old browser. Does Debian LTS provide that? Edit: Oh, server. Forgot that context.
I have to agree with him on Unity, the reaction to it seemed to outweigh it’s presentation. I gave it a try and liked some aspects but ultimately ended up on Cinnamon. I realize that’s a totally subjective statement but I was surprised by some of the reactions I heard about it.
So yes, I never used Unity but I didn't ask for its demise. There were alternatives and I was happy with them. Still Canonical decided to dump Unity. Why? They couldn't make money out of it, and out of Mir and the old Convergence project. [1]
In his words
> Some of the things that we were doing were clearly never going to be commercially sustainable, other things clearly will be commercially sustainable, or already are commercially sustainable.
> The decision] meant that we couldn’t have on our books (effectively) very substantial projects which clearly have no commercial angle to them at all.
That's not because people were asking Canonical to kill Unity.
[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/10/why-did-ubuntu-drop-unit...
I have to agree with him on Unity, the reaction to it seemed to outweigh it’s presentation. I gave it a try and liked some aspects but ultimately ended up on Cinnamon. I realize that’s a totally subjective statement but I was surprised by some of the reactions I heard about it.
I actually stopped using linux as my main OS in 2010 because of Gnome3 and Unity. The "Applications","Places","System" menu was clear, intuitive and desktop oriented. I never liked KDE, and MATE seemed like a rather unoptmized fork. So it left me with using Xubuntu VM on a Windows host (and I hate Windows because of it lacks bash). Once I moved to the US I started using Mac and never looked back. The best thing that…
Serious question: What are the advantages of Ubuntu on a server over, say, Debian?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ubuntu has more frequent releases, but since people are using Ubuntu LTS that's a very good question considering Debian also has LTS releases on the same frequency.
Ubuntu constantly backports certain applications like Firefox for LTS so you don't have a two year old browser. Does Debian LTS provide that? Edit: Oh, server. Forgot that context.
I think the major distros defaulting to GNOME is not going to end well. I tried very hard to use (and like) GNOME Shell for a while, and put it on my wife's computer as well. I always ended up finding completely wrong for the way I want to interact with my computer. And my wife long complained "why don't you switch my machine to the nice interface you use" and finally last week I did switch her off of GNOME and she's…
Serious question: What are the advantages of Ubuntu on a server over, say, Debian?
In my experience Debian has considerably older packages. However if one installs everything with docker the underlying OS has very little importance. It stops at sshd, systemd and vim, anything else can be dockerized.
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>I realize that’s a totally subjective statement but I was surprised by some of the reactions I heard about it. Agreed. I think a lot of it just came down to performance. Unity was ahead of it’s time, and a lot of people just didn’t have the hardware to handle it with zero lag.
The last thing a DE should do is consume so many resources nothing else can run properly. There is no benefit to it. DE's should use almost nothing and run lag-free on 10 year old hardware. Show me a single feature in Unity that saved so many people, so much work that it justified extra power consumption across the world. Hell, show me a single feature that didn't actually slow people down compared to, let's say, xfc…
2. HUD (Heads Up Display) — by just tapping Alt and typing, you could quickly select an option from almost any application's menu (saving you the time of looking through the menus and trying to remember whether the desired option was under Edit or View).
3. Not a speed benefit, but: better use of vertical space.
BTW I think that XFCE is a great DE.