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not the server. my biggest complaint about ubuntu server is that docker is packaged as a snap. But that takes 30s to fix (includding googling for a fix :) )
Is that ubuntu 20.04? I've used 18.04 extensively and it's just: apt-get install docker.io
Indeed, typing in “docker” at the Ubuntu 20.04 command line tells you the above “apt-get install docker.io” command; one does not even need to waste time with a 30 second Google/DuckDuckGo search.
(Learning Ubuntu since CentOS went broke their pinky promise to supply security updates until 2029)