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I don't know. Ubuntu seems quite fine. I would install Debian on new servers. Debian is fantastic, I don't quite see what Ubuntu would bring today except suppor

by jraph 4y ago

I don't know. Ubuntu seems quite fine. I would install Debian on new servers. Debian is fantastic, I don't quite see what Ubuntu would bring today except support, which I don't need, but I see that it might bring a lot of crap. Particularly afraid of Snap. Debian is also almost a de facto standard on servers. But so far Ubuntu has been reliable on servers I set up with it in the past, and repositories have always worked fine. Nothing pushes me to start a migration to Debian for them.

nikolay 4y ago
I am speaking from experience. A developer once killed the archive and his response about fixing it was something like "Sorry, I don't work until tomorrow morning." So, we had to switch to mirrors so that new servers in ASGs could install packages on top of based images. This was years ago and then we switched to images thanks to HashiCorp's Packer, but we also decided to abandon Ubuntu and switch to Debian.