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by 8bitbuddhist 1466 days ago
Not OP, but Pop OS is a great Ubuntu derivative.
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Is that not for desktops? What is the alternative for servers?
Anything bad for Ubuntu Server? I find some bad points for Ubuntu Desktop, but Ubuntu Server is fine.
If you want to set it up and forget about it, just use any RHEL clone (AlmaLinux is by far the fastest with updates: it took them like a week to ship RHEL 9 after the official release). You set up the system, install & enable `dnf-automatic`, and forget that it exists for the next 10 years.

If AlmaLinux (or any other clone) dies for some reason, you can always move to another clone without re-installation (using their tool `elevate`).

We switched our base server build OS to Debian. Has been great so far and runs with very low resources / extra fluff.