Yeah, Ubuntu was revolutionary when it came out, because it made Debian accessible to a much broader audience and fixed all sorts of small but important hangnai

Yeah, Ubuntu was revolutionary when it came out, because it made Debian accessible to a much broader audience and fixed all sorts of small but important hangnails, at a time when that was exactly what was needed. Today, the gap between Ubuntu and Debian on cloud servers is fairly narrow: third-party packages tend to be built for Ubuntu, but Debian is fine. The big difference is that Ubuntu LTS releases have long, guaranteed support periods, which is very useful for business planning. I'm not going to comment on the Ubuntu desktop.