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by vmp 2798 days ago
Personally, I've only ever had issues with Ubuntu Server and have since switched back to Debian.

I don't know if I'm extremely unlucky or if the choices I make are really that bad;

- I've hit a bug with amavisd and bitdefender[1]

- Recently, Ubuntu pushed for 'netplan' instead of ifupdown and that didn't work with an empty bridge for LXC[2][3]

- They broke a (convenience) script for remotely unlocking a LUKS rootfs[4]

- postconf segfaulting every 5 minutes[5], nothing bad but it just looks ugly in the server logs

That's the major annoyances that I've experienced in the last 3 years. Never had anything like it on Debian. :/

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amavisd-new/+bug/1...

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/netplan/+bug/1736975

[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/netplan/+bug/1773997

[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/busybox/+bug/16518...

[5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postfix/+bug/17534...

2 comments

Most Debian packages are years behind the current stable release. This debate is as old as Ubuntu itself. It is the very reason Ubuntu exists. Stable, free, current: pick any two
netplan seems to be a nightmare, I ended up falling back to ifupdown when trying to setup libvirtd.