You can come up with similar "reasons"(read: bullshit) for any distro(or Operating System). In terms of cloud, Ubuntu is popular, if I look at the desktop I ge

You can come up with similar "reasons"(read: bullshit) for any distro(or Operating System). In terms of cloud, Ubuntu is popular, if I look at the desktop I get the same result. So apparently they are doing something right. If we want to judge Linux distro releases we should judge them by facts that matter to real users, not made up ones. Also we can't really talk about Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop in the same thread, even though a lot of the base system is the same, these areas have radically different requirements.