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by sacnoradhq 1178 days ago
Canonical is an expert marksman footgunner.

They take bizarre risks and insist on reinventing things badly.

Security, infrastructure ecosystem integration, and defaults that don't work with reality.

The advantage of RHEL/Cent and sometimes Fedora server-side is it's boringly-reliable. The kernel especially. For development, the userland isn't great and the desktop is mediocre.

Qubes is interesting for security, containerization, and running apps isolation where Fedora, Cent, and Debian (possibly Ubuntu and Windows) are all side-by-side choices as app substrates.

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Canonical makes a server OS and also releases a desktop version for nostalgia reasons (my guess). They should just deprecate Ubuntu Desktop already and be done with it.