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I have a couple of personal servers I run on Ubuntu. I've used Alpine before and it's fine, but I want proper bash and full tools which is tedious to setup, an
by suprjami 4y ago
I have a couple of personal servers I run on Ubuntu.
I've used Alpine before and it's fine, but I want proper bash and full tools which is tedious to setup, and it doesn't do release upgrades automatically. Sometimes they make major changes like sudo-to-doas. Alpine needs a better versioning system and a release upgrader.
I've also run Debian and found it unpolished and unreliable. For no reason whatsoever package updates just randomly reset all my preferences sometimes. This has happened to me multiple times over different packages and installs. Now I wouldn't run Debian if you paid me.
Ubuntu Server has none of these problems and just works.
- gunapologist99 4y agoFWIW, Void is like a bigger version of Alpine; they even both have musl versions. (Interestingly, I've always found Debian quite reliable but agree that it definitely lacks the polish that Ubuntu provides.)