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> > Ubuntu is the developer distro after all > I'd have assumed Arch and friends. I'm a huge Arch (and NixOS) user. But one of the things that I think is diff
by heywoodlh 4y ago
> > Ubuntu is the developer distro after all
> I'd have assumed Arch and friends.
I'm a huge Arch (and NixOS) user. But one of the things that I think is difficult about Arch in an enterprise is that by design it is difficult to standardize enterprise tooling around. Ubuntu, on the other hand, has a bunch of defaults that can be more reliably be predicted for in an enterprise.
I'm a security engineer and I've thought long and hard about why enterprise applications often lack Linux support -- it would be difficult to have something that works across the board (there are so many choices of desktop environments, notification daemons, network subsystems, etc.). If I were to write enterprise applications that targeted Linux I would probably target the default config of the current LTS release of Ubuntu (Gnome as the desktop environment, etc.).
I feel like Ubuntu is the desktop developer environment for the enterprise that is forward enough to support desktop Linux.
- aliqot 4y agoI think I'm smelling what you're stepping in. What made me assume arch was the ease at which everything is 'there' without a snap or ppa via the AUR. Thanks for taking a moment to share a different perspective with me. I've been trying to have a similar strategy to you with regards to enterprise long-uptime application deployments. I target RHEL and Debian Sid because they move at a almost glacial pace and have quite a bit of documentation. Do you ever wonder what the trajectory of Microsoft and Canonical looks like with regards to an M&A perspective? It would be a good contender to counter Red Hat's dominance in the enterprise space.