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> These days many of them are moving to 'xubuntu' (mainly avoiding the unity+gnome3 mess). Wouldn't Debian work a bit better and come with a better long-term s
by 0815test 8y ago
> These days many of them are moving to 'xubuntu' (mainly avoiding the unity+gnome3 mess).
Wouldn't Debian work a bit better and come with a better long-term stability policy? It seems strange to rely on the *buntus unless you're specifically relying either on proprietary software that's Ubuntu-targeted, or commercial support from Canonical. (But there are some spaces, e.g. GPGPU compute, where either of these might be relevant and Debian still has quite a bit of work to do before it can be relevant.)
- njepa 8y agoIn my experience scientific and enterprise organization don't use Linux for any given feature, but because it is available. In many ways they use Linux despite it being Linux. So whatever is the least obscure would be ideal.
- zokier 8y ago> Wouldn't Debian work a bit better and come with a better long-term stability policy? Both have 5y LTS support?
- jandrese 8y agoUbuntu 18 is getting 10 year LTS support.