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Ubuntu is such a turn-off experience for servers. The cloud-init feature is atrocious. You download a "server-live" iso. 2GB. However this uses the cloud-init

Ubuntu is such a turn-off experience for servers. The cloud-init feature is atrocious. You download a "server-live" iso. 2GB. However this uses the cloud-init to download the required files. Why did I download a 2GB file if your going to download it from the net anyway? There is no option to not install from the net without removing network adapter. Boggles me why am I being asked to upgrade my installer while installing, what's the point in that? "There is a new version on GitHub" ... If your shipping an installer it should install. Not ask me to download a newer version. Why is there a new version, is the bundled version security ridden? It decided to just pluck a DHCP IPv6 and use that, without any confirmation. I setup a 50G Luks Encrypted LVM crypt yet discovered that it only allocates 25G leaving the other half to float. You need to know YAML to configure networking. Resolv.conf is taken hostage by systemd-resolvd which doesn't work! The whole process was infuriating. This was an install for an email server yesterday.

ryankrage77 3y ago
My first experience with the 'live' ISO forced me to find how to get the traditional non-live ISO instead. I was trying to set up a software RAID, and it would just crash no matter how I tried to configure it. Tried the same thing in the non-live version and it worked perfectly first time. Sadly now the live installer is the only option. I recently set up a machine to run folding@home, and it took me four attempts before the installer didn't crash and I could get a working machine. The trick was to run with all defaults and not change anything. Insanity. How the support forums aren't flooded with complaints is beyond me.