Do we dislike Ubuntu
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Don't like the desktop really, but I actually quite like the server edition.
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Really like what I'm reading here and the other threads/community...but I'm still a linux newbie (for several years)..I do not claim to know it all or anything to be advanced, but has stuck with what we have here (Ubuntu server) which I know enough on how to manage.
On the desktop side, I've had it in my personal laptop which is now decommissioned due to hardware failure. I actually liked the desktop (have not tried other ones though...aside from Windows
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My default is normally CentOS no real reason apart from it's what I've always used. But as I'm a newbie as such with Linux if the install guide shows Ubuntu then I'll use that.
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@vhinzsanchez said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
Really like what I'm reading here and the other threads/community...but I'm still a linux newbie (for several years)..I do not claim to know it all or anything to be advanced, but has stuck with what we have here (Ubuntu server) which I know enough on how to manage.
I'm with you here. While I know Ubuntu isn't the favoured distro here, there is SO much documentation out there that it was the easiest for me to begin learning Linux and it's been a huge help getting me out of the Windows comfort zone. I've just now started down the path of other distros.
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@nashbrydges said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@vhinzsanchez said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
Really like what I'm reading here and the other threads/community...but I'm still a linux newbie (for several years)..I do not claim to know it all or anything to be advanced, but has stuck with what we have here (Ubuntu server) which I know enough on how to manage.
I'm with you here. While I know Ubuntu isn't the favoured distro here, there is SO much documentation out there that it was the easiest for me to begin learning Linux and it's been a huge help getting me out of the Windows comfort zone. I've just now started down the path of other distros.
Although it needs way more documnetation that some others
One of the reasons that I dislike Ubuntu is that their own docs weren't correct and information was not reliable.
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No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
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@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
Fedora is not bleeding edge, that's not the right way to think of it. It's just current, if anything, I'd say that it is probably the more stable of the two. CentOS is "old", not "stable". The two are not the same thing. CentOS is for specific cases where you need to maintain unchanging libraries - not something you ideally want. We specifically want Fedora for better stability over CentOS.
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@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
The way I've been using CentOS and Fedora. Is that I would use Fedora by default unless there some weird setup that can break easily because of upgrading to a new version of Fedora or requires more effort to get it working correctly.
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@black3dynamite said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
The way I've been using CentOS and Fedora. Is that I would use Fedora by default unless there some weird setup that can break easily because of upgrading to a new version of Fedora or requires more effort to get it working correctly.
Yeah, CentOS only as a "fallback".
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@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@black3dynamite said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
The way I've been using CentOS and Fedora. Is that I would use Fedora by default unless there some weird setup that can break easily because of upgrading to a new version of Fedora or requires more effort to get it working correctly.
Yeah, CentOS only as a "fallback".
Would you consider the same for Ubuntu? Latest Ubuntu release, LTS as a fallback?
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@black3dynamite said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@black3dynamite said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
The way I've been using CentOS and Fedora. Is that I would use Fedora by default unless there some weird setup that can break easily because of upgrading to a new version of Fedora or requires more effort to get it working correctly.
Yeah, CentOS only as a "fallback".
Would you consider the same for Ubuntu? Latest Ubuntu release, LTS as a fallback?
I only use Ubuntu in a must use case scenario, i.e. a vendor requires it. Then I always use the latest release. I always upgrade to the latest release.
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@black3dynamite said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@black3dynamite said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
The way I've been using CentOS and Fedora. Is that I would use Fedora by default unless there some weird setup that can break easily because of upgrading to a new version of Fedora or requires more effort to get it working correctly.
Yeah, CentOS only as a "fallback".
Would you consider the same for Ubuntu? Latest Ubuntu release, LTS as a fallback?
Absolutely. Ubuntu LTS is just for bad situations that you have to fix by not properly maintaining your OS.
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I'm quite opposite: when developping stuff I really like to reduce the amount of maintanance of the OS. Of course too old is something I don't like, therefore I find a good balance by using ubuntu LTS and recently I've done a short test on opensuse leap too.
Yes you have no support but I don't search for it. what you have to do is installing security fixes, and I trust both ubuntu e opensuse enough to set automatic updates for fixes only. On the other hand I got stable API and ABI to develop against.
Nice to me.
I would also like debian but they have a quite short release cycle. To me ubuntu is a sort of LTS over a debian base (ubuntu is something like 75% debian - and when I install ubuntu minimal I got something like 100% debian - on the source everything is recompiled).
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@matteo-nunziati said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
I'm quite opposite: when developping stuff I really like to reduce the amount of maintanance of the OS. Of course too old is something I don't like, therefore I find a good balance by using ubuntu LTS and recently I've done a short test on opensuse leap too.
Yes you have no support but I don't search for it. what you have to do is installing security fixes, and I trust both ubuntu e opensuse enough to set automatic updates for fixes only. On the other hand I got stable API and ABI to develop against.
Nice to me.
I would also like debian but they have a quite short release cycle. To me ubuntu is a sort of LTS over a debian base (ubuntu is something like 75% debian - and when I install ubuntu minimal I got something like 100% debian - on the source everything is recompiled).
Debian LTS
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@matteo-nunziati said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
I'm quite opposite: when developping stuff I really like to reduce the amount of maintanance of the OS. Of course too old is something I don't like, therefore I find a good balance by using ubuntu LTS and recently I've done a short test on opensuse leap too.
I find it more work because the tools I want to use require newer versions of packages
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@matteo-nunziati said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
I'm quite opposite: when developping stuff I really like to reduce the amount of maintanance of the OS. Of course too old is something I don't like, therefore I find a good balance by using ubuntu LTS and recently I've done a short test on opensuse leap too.
This I specifically want my developers to avoid - I don't want them depending on "old code" year after year so that we get into dangerous or expensive technical debt scenarios. I want them to find problems as soon as possible, as small as possible so that we are getting maintained code, instead of hitting risky forklifts after getting more and more entrenched by writing code that is no longer maintainable.
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@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
Fedora is not bleeding edge, that's not the right way to think of it. It's just current, if anything, I'd say that it is probably the more stable of the two. CentOS is "old", not "stable". The two are not the same thing. CentOS is for specific cases where you need to maintain unchanging libraries - not something you ideally want. We specifically want Fedora for better stability over CentOS.
I chose the wrong verbiage, having read back through what I wrote. I meant bleeding edge as in latest features and consistently up to date. Where things couldn't change due to requirements where things might break, I've used CentOS. Not necessarily that it is more stable, just that things wouldn't break as easily for that reason.
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@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
Fedora is not bleeding edge, that's not the right way to think of it. It's just current, if anything, I'd say that it is probably the more stable of the two. CentOS is "old", not "stable". The two are not the same thing. CentOS is for specific cases where you need to maintain unchanging libraries - not something you ideally want. We specifically want Fedora for better stability over CentOS.
I chose the wrong verbiage, having read back through what I wrote. I meant bleeding edge as in latest features and consistently up to date. Where things couldn't change due to requirements where things might break, I've used CentOS. Not necessarily that it is more stable, just that things wouldn't break as easily for that reason.
I think that it makes "meaningful" breaks way more likely. CentOS does basically all the same changes as Fedora, just saves them up to make it far more painful when you have to deal with many at once. It's not like Fedora makes "more" changes, it just makes them in smaller amounts more often which protects you in many ways.
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@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
Fedora is not bleeding edge, that's not the right way to think of it. It's just current, if anything, I'd say that it is probably the more stable of the two. CentOS is "old", not "stable". The two are not the same thing. CentOS is for specific cases where you need to maintain unchanging libraries - not something you ideally want. We specifically want Fedora for better stability over CentOS.
I chose the wrong verbiage, having read back through what I wrote. I meant bleeding edge as in latest features and consistently up to date. Where things couldn't change due to requirements where things might break, I've used CentOS. Not necessarily that it is more stable, just that things wouldn't break as easily for that reason.
I think that it makes "meaningful" breaks way more likely. CentOS does basically all the same changes as Fedora, just saves them up to make it far more painful when you have to deal with many at once. It's not like Fedora makes "more" changes, it just makes them in smaller amounts more often which protects you in many ways.
I can understand that. Having small things break, or rather maybe smaller things often rather than big breaks rarely, comes down to preference. Would I rather deal with small "noise" or a late night here and there with big stuff? If the small stuff does not effect end users to a point it is unnoticeable, but the big stuff takes down a service, those are big differences.
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@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:
No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.
Fedora is not bleeding edge, that's not the right way to think of it. It's just current, if anything, I'd say that it is probably the more stable of the two. CentOS is "old", not "stable". The two are not the same thing. CentOS is for specific cases where you need to maintain unchanging libraries - not something you ideally want. We specifically want Fedora for better stability over CentOS.
I chose the wrong verbiage, having read back through what I wrote. I meant bleeding edge as in latest features and consistently up to date. Where things couldn't change due to requirements where things might break, I've used CentOS. Not necessarily that it is more stable, just that things wouldn't break as easily for that reason.
I think that it makes "meaningful" breaks way more likely. CentOS does basically all the same changes as Fedora, just saves them up to make it far more painful when you have to deal with many at once. It's not like Fedora makes "more" changes, it just makes them in smaller amounts more often which protects you in many ways.
I can understand that. Having small things break, or rather maybe smaller things often rather than big breaks rarely, comes down to preference. Would I rather deal with small "noise" or a late night here and there with big stuff? If the small stuff does not effect end users to a point it is unnoticeable, but the big stuff takes down a service, those are big differences.
It's not about just breaking things, that shouldn't happen in either case. In both cases you deal with that through testing. What we are talking about between the two is whether your developers fix things "as they go" or if they save things up for years and then have to do major fixes to fix not only not keeping up as they went, but years of accumulated technical debt that could have been avoided.
