278 engineers on Hacker News describe using Ubuntu first-hand: 71 endorse it, 50 regret it, 15 are mixed.
“I've just had relatively few issues with Ubuntu, been using it for >10 years, and don't see any reason to switch.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · queenkjuul · 2026-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Anyway, the ZFS thing ... are why I don't trust them in prod anymore.”
regret · production · hedora · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just sticked with Ubuntu. On servers, too. I endured it all, including the Amazon spyware, the ads in MOTD”
mixed · production · 22 yr · Fnoord · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I deployed Ubuntu on a LOT of servers 10 years ago... That changed when they started heavily promoting Snaps as the next big thing”
regret · production · bityard · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had long left Ubuntu on servers and had been using Debian there for years”
regret · production · pessimizer · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“looking to move since Ubuntu went over to Snaps and started breaking everything”
regret · personal · pbhjpbhj · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“none of the distributions have forced their semi-closed source metastasizing package manager on me mid-flight ever, except Ubuntu.”
regret · personal · bayindirh · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On Ubuntu starting in 2006 and Kubuntu the last several years, what you're describing doesn't and hasn't happened to me.”
endorse · personal · 20 yr · newsoftheday · 2026-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“chose to install Ubuntu on his work Dell laptop, and in the ~2 years he's been running that thing he's had regular (2-3/month) issues with audio”
regret · production · 2 yr · throw0101a · 2026-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It turned out that he had been misled by a prompt to buy Ubuntu pro and had gotten into a weird state.”
regret · personal · freedomben · 2026-01-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“they've consistently delivered an "everything works out of the box" experience with Ubuntu and/or Fedora”
endorse · personal · 15 yr · andreashaerter · 2025-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the latest kernel on Ubuntu seems to freeze on boot. No idea why - I can move to the older .5 kernel”
regret · personal · InTheArena · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Well Ubuntu24.10 was way more predictable. PopOS issues:”
endorse · personal · jojosbuddy · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using 22.04 for about six months (AI development and some Steam games) - I really enjoy it. The 24.04 upgrade was flawless.”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · LatencyKills · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after 15 years of running Ubuntu without any problem”
endorse · personal · 15 yr · realusername · 2025-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It never happened once with my parents in 15 years of running Ubuntu.”
endorse · personal · 15 yr · realusername · 2025-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Installing Ubuntu bricked a Samsung laptop I had some years back. Never again.”
regret · personal · dale_huevo · 2025-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used a Virtual Box VM with a Ubuntu guest for years and it has worked great.”
endorse · personal · dsfsaff · 2025-01-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu / Debian for the last 20 years I never had to re-install it because something broke.”
endorse · personal · 20 yr · Thaxll · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our Libraries have switched to Ubuntu on every public PC, and it has been a non-issue”
endorse · production · devjab · 2024-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I’ve been running Ubuntu boxes in prod since 12.x — every update this file changes, or it’s format does. It’s bullshit and I wish it would end.”
regret · production · 12 yr · cyberpunk · 2024-04-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I encourage my kids (3 and 6) to explore computers without the internet: an Ubuntu laptop has an entirely different appeal from a browser and internet.”
endorse · personal · necovek · 2023-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I only deploy Ubuntu server when we need Linux vms anymore.”
endorse · production · cyberpunk · 2023-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I could just open Ubuntu's handy dandy driver manager, and get a neatly wrapped .deb installed.”
endorse · personal · thomastjeffery · 2023-03-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have taken long lived machines from 18.04 --> 20.04 --> 22.04. It's pretty easy to go from 20.04 --> 22.04 without having to reinstall your OS.”
endorse · production · klipklop · 2023-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently installed ubuntu lts and then ran updates, and then the machine refused to boot.”
regret · personal · 15 yr · parker_mountain · 2023-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we also decided to abandon Ubuntu and switch to Debian.”
regret · production · nikolay · 2023-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ubuntu was great. ... These days I myself would not use Ubuntu.”
mixed · personal · dxs · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for close to 5 years on Gnome / Ubuntu with a lot of success”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · xur17 · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have had Canonical recommended updates catastrophically break my install.”
regret · production · sircastor · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“people need to stop using Ubuntu. I have been using Linux for ages and find the UI super confusing”
regret · personal · cardanome · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“every single time Ubuntu Software messed something up... It makes the whole Linux desktop look like a joke.”
regret · personal · mort96 · 2022-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For a work tool as a developer, I moved back to Ubuntu (though I have moments of regret every day).”
mixed · production · rmbyrro · 2022-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when we introduced metal instances we found that the default ubuntu AMI launched with a powersave cpu governor”
regret · production · phamilton · 2022-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been doing it for years since we cut the cord from cable TV. We switched to a plain PC... running Ubuntu”
endorse · personal · 3 yr · RockingGoodNite · 2022-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ubuntu file servers using AD and SMB does not work well in my experience tho”
regret · production · thghtihadanacct · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as a dev linux on the desktop works fine. I've been using basically bog standard ubuntu lts for a long time now.”
endorse · production · Barrin92 · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been running Ubuntu on my 14 inch Mac for a little while now and it works great.”
endorse · personal · chewyland · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ubuntu compared to Debian standard install is more bloated, interim releases are much buggier, and Ubuntu LTS is less stable than Debian stable.”
regret · production · DyslexicAtheist · 2021-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They prefer the Ubuntu and Pop os machines, but are fine with any.”
endorse · personal · taeric · 2021-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had (what I consider) a better experience on Ubuntu/Pop with Regolith as a tiling WM.”
endorse · personal · gavinray · 2021-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“never had one in years of running on something I built from random parts.”
endorse · personal · blakesterz · 2021-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I bought a laptop officially preloaded with Ubuntu. And the minute I did software update there, everything broke.”
regret · personal · shp0ngle · 2021-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“never had that issue with debian (or ubuntu) and I use both fulltime on servers and desktops (laptops)”
endorse · production · tluyben2 · 2021-02-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu as my primary OS for three years. I'm largely happy with the user experience.”
endorse · personal · 3 yr · teodorlu · 2020-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Recently I've been using Linux more, as I used to. Have to say Ubuntu remains the most polished and useful of the distro's overall.”
endorse · personal · randomsearch · 2020-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“minor Ubuntu version updates don't break the kernel internal ABI's so there's no need to wait for all your out-of-tree kernel stuff”
endorse · production · jabl · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't have as much confidence in Ubuntu, and the last few months of monitoring security update regressions hasn't reinforced confidence.”
regret · production · neilv · 2020-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've historically used ubuntu for many ec2 instances, but the default ubuntu AMI image uses MBR for it's partition (!!! in 2020!!!)”
regret · production · mijoharas · 2020-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run some machine learning systems on Ubuntu server, and it's really easy to accidentily install the full desktop environment”
mixed · production · tinco · 2020-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since it's always worked for me, I've stuck with it.”
endorse · personal · 14 yr · bwanab · 2020-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ubuntu was supposed to help prevent us from needing to chase this.”
endorse · production · ultrarunner · 2020-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my Ubuntu experiment ate itself after less than a week when it wouldn't boot one day after an update.”
regret · personal · wayneftw · 2019-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Everything new was spun-up with Ubuntu as a base distro and you better believe I manually opted-out of this "feature".”
regret · production · peterangular · 2019-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had multiple problems with Mint/Ubuntu/Debian, especially with nvidia drivers and kernel updates”
regret · personal · mister_hn · 2019-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm running a Threadripper 2950X in my primary workstation, Ubuntu 19.10... I have not encountered a single CPU-related issue”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · rubbingalcohol · 2019-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows, never again, and I switched happily to Ubuntu.”
endorse · personal · 8sleef · 2019-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The last time I lost all most of my data was when I tried upgrading Ubuntu to the next major version using the upgrade manager.”
regret · personal · jondubois · 2019-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'll never really rely on Ubuntu for development, because you'll definitely end up adding PPAs to compensate for out of date packages”
regret · personal · qalmakka · 2018-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu/Compiz for a couple years and it has some annoying quirks”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · canada_dry · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been moving off Ubuntu in production since it adopted systemd”
regret · production · inopinatus · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was just lucky I'd switched to Ubuntu a few months before.”
endorse · personal · Izkata · 2018-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Kubuntu and Ubuntu server and I have had some really annoying update issues with them too.”
regret · personal · jimnotgym · 2018-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ubuntu doesn't ship with pip or virtualenv. In fact it ships with a version of Python where the built-in equivalent to virtualenv, pyvenv, is explicitly disabled.”
regret · personal · rspeer · 2018-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've run this way for over a decade over 6 continents, it just works.”
endorse · production · 10 yr · isostatic · 2018-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to Ubuntu for simplicity”
endorse · personal · lloeki · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Ubuntu LTS without problems on an older notebook.”
endorse · personal · CyberFonic · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we were quite happy because it meant we could stop upgrading to every non-LTS Ubuntu release just to pick up hardware support”
endorse · production · geofft · 2017-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started using ubuntu in production thinking it was stable. After 6 months, the server wouldn't boot because of this reason.”
regret · production · 0.5 yr · styfle · 2017-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“they're using Ubuntu as their base OS, which we weren't the biggest fans of.”
regret · production · HorizonXP · 2017-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my three or four years of running Ubuntu-based distributions, I'm yet to find a single laptop where WiFi / sound card / touch screen or any other piece of laptop hardware that doesn't work.”
endorse · personal · 3 yr · r3bl · 2017-04-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The T450S I have Ubuntu on is the best it's ever been in my 15+ years of running Linux on laptops.”
endorse · personal · bluedino · 2017-01-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A lot of people like Ubuntu, but I've had terrible luck with it.”
regret · personal · aidenn0 · 2017-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was fine until last October when I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 16.10.”
mixed · personal · 2 yr · AlbertoGP · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been a linux user for 10 years (xUbuntu) and have been liking it quite a lot.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · fpaboim · 2016-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“switching to Ubuntu, and realizing that things were just as flaky there.”
regret · personal · 6 yr · drewg123 · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu for the last two years and rarely have problems.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · greydius · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“To me it seems like 16.04 is a lot slower than 14.04, and I regret upgrading.”
regret · personal · hollander · 2016-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Thanks Ubuntu, wish you were a unix! Also if sshd tries to access its sftp loadable module and fails”
regret · production · VLM · 2016-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Same here, great experience with Linux on UX305FA. I switched to multi-boot setup, shrinking Windows partition and giving Ubuntu 14.04 half of the 256GB SSD.”
endorse · personal · hsitz · 2016-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ditto for my other PCs running Ubuntu 12.x”
endorse · personal · varelse · 2016-02-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my seven years of running Ubuntu on Macbooks, I've run into that in the past, but it's been a while.”
mixed · personal · 7 yr · Diederich · 2016-01-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ubuntu is broken in my opinion. Partly it's due to its success.”
regret · personal · reedlaw · 2015-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“He has been using it for about 18 months now.”
endorse · personal · 1.5 yr · bigger_cheese · 2015-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My latest attempt was with an Ubuntu-certified Dell m3800. The 4K screen was unmanageable in Linux.”
regret · personal · chisleu · 2015-07-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I retired my last 10.04 earlier this year, that thing ran in production for five years with less than 10 hours downtime”
endorse · production · 5 yr · noir_lord · 2015-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it purely as a phone for now... I'm going with Ubuntu now because they're the furthest ahead.”
endorse · personal · vegabook · 2015-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon (3rd gen) with ubuntu on dual boot no problem.”
endorse · personal · Justen · 2015-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One of the first things I noticed was that it instantaneously recognized pen drives without going through all that found new device dance.”
endorse · personal · 6 yr · pmontra · 2015-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“check out ubuntu phones - ubuntu.com/phone - we run a full linux on a phone.”
endorse · personal · dharma1 · 2015-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ubuntu has no problems with it”
endorse · personal · jlgaddis · 2015-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now I regret I upgraded my Ubuntu to 15.04 Since there is no support for cuda from NVIDIA”
regret · personal · cwhy · 2015-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Ubuntu, which might be our mistake, but off the top of my head, I think our installations of nginx”
mixed · production · deathanatos · 2015-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Ubuntu on my personal machines. It's free, and works on virtually any machine”
endorse · personal · xur17 · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was wrong, it was down for 6 hours. unfortunately someone upsteam caused that particular kernel update”
regret · production · dijit · 2014-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the ubuntu-studio releases in my main music studio DAW for years now. ... the desktop works like it should”
endorse · personal · fit2rule · 2013-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Compare to a couple Ubuntu servers I have to deal with I have to go out of the way to get more recent packages”
regret · production · yogo · 2013-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using an X1 Carbon as my primary machine for the past ten months... Ubuntu LTS installs and runs great”
endorse · personal · 0.8 yr · jasonabate · 2013-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The others feel like a downgrade/hassle from Ubuntu (I love unity, 'pretty okay' is not good enough)”
endorse · personal · johnsea · 2013-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If you really want something pretty and easy, go with Ubuntu. It mostly just works.”
endorse · personal · rob05c · 2013-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In ubuntu it works out of the box, two-finger scrolling and all”
endorse · personal · mvanotti · 2013-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Personally, I've been on Ubuntu for about 8 years. I have never regretted it.”
endorse · personal · 8 yr · frank_boyd · 2013-09-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run ubuntu servers, but I'm thinking of changing over to debian. Ubuntu is a moving target with its 6-mo releases”
mixed · production · vacri · 2013-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Don't even get me started with the unavailability of Chromium on 12.10 and the Amazon search results...”
mixed · personal · 12 yr · wyuenho · 2012-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu since 2006, and this year I forked off to Linux Mint Debian Edition”
regret · personal · 6 yr · nacker · 2012-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu since it first came out... aptitude was dead simple and generally seemed to "just work".”
mixed · personal · 8 yr · Skywing · 2012-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“most things work fine on Ubuntu 12.10”
mixed · personal · graue · 2012-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a lot of webservers, our own hardware, on Ubuntu and we do not have this issue at all.”
endorse · production · electic · 2012-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ubuntu works pretty well on the server, and comes out with nice regular releases”
endorse · production · davidw · 2012-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the default Ubuntu key bindings left something to be desired so I remapped them... I have been using this setup for more than two years now.”
mixed · personal · 2 yr · benji-york · 2012-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Each VM has a gig of RAM and runs Ubuntu Server and things are pretty peachy.”
endorse · personal · eropple · 2012-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do use Ubnutu, BTW, but regret the decision on a regular basis.”
regret · personal · jrockway · 2012-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using two Dell laptops over the past 5 or so years with Ubuntu. Usually they work fine, but every release breaks some little thing”
regret · personal · 5 yr · acabal · 2012-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu for years on my laptop, both for work and for home entertainment.”
endorse · production · bad_user · 2012-08-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Switching to a Lenovo running Ubuntu was a far better (and MUCH cheaper) experience.”
endorse · personal · rufugee · 2012-08-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We saw this on every Ubuntu Lucid machine we run. Restarting the JVM was insufficient - we ended up fully rebooting the machines.”
regret · production · cmorrisrsg · 2012-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I like Ubuntu and see it as a much more positive model and a more extensible, cheaper system.”
endorse · personal · gouranga · 2012-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu exclusively on the desktop for about 6 years now.”
endorse · personal · 6 yr · fexl · 2011-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I hate the way Ubuntu does many, many things. It's not that I hate change: I hate non-obvious change.”
mixed · personal · 15 yr · baughj · 2011-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I upgraded one of my machines to 11.10 (which I now really regret doing).”
regret · personal · gsoltis · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using ubuntu for about 5 years now, and using it as basically my only OS for the last 3. I was very satisfied with it.”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · gsoltis · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We will probably leave ubuntu because of it”
regret · personal · andreadallera · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Ubuntu for 5 years or so and for my purposes it is 'like windows, but better'”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · Atropos · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“gvim freezes for 30 seconds on start-up if you have installed foreign language packs, a bug fedora fixed about 9 months ago but persists in ubuntu”
regret · personal · jmoiron · 2011-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“During a standard upgrade, your operating system shouldn't decide that the way you've been using it is wrong”
regret · personal · angusgr · 2011-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I regret running the upgrade and as soon as I can I'm switching to something more productive and usable”
regret · personal · FuzzyDunlop · 2011-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Ubuntu on my laptop and I'm doing most of my software development on it.”
endorse · personal · bad_user · 2011-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only thing the team missed was Office and had a few issues with audio/video plugins for the browser which we solved mostly without any headaches.”
endorse · production · ankimal · 2011-01-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've replaced most of the fonts on my Ubuntu Maverick installation too. Linux font rendering has never been fantastic, but it's OK now.”
mixed · personal · kogir · 2010-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu sinse 8.04, and have seen it progress quite a bit over the new LTS's and updates.”
endorse · personal · 2.5 yr · jhawk · 2010-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the experience in Ubuntu 10.10 has been.”
endorse · personal · abhimishra · 2010-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Ubuntu LTS at work because of the stability.”
endorse · production · barnaby · 2010-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the hassle free upgrade from version to version and the ease of use of apt-get is certainly unmatched on any other platform”
mixed · personal · zohebv · 2010-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It has been rock solid for me for 2-3 years now.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · ohyes · 2010-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I actually prefer Ubuntu Server for my personal projects since I prefer its Apache structure and easier package management.”
endorse · personal · neovive · 2010-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When i started using Ubuntu a few months ago, it made me feel like i was being more productive, but i was basically wasting a lot of time installing the correct drivers”
regret · personal · MisterWebz · 2010-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in the second week we run certification and regression tests on Ubuntu Certified hardware”
neutral · production · hcy-canonical · 2026-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated to Ubuntu from CentOS as well.”
neutral · production · JoeBOFH · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in DayJob Unbuntu is close enough and seems to make others more comfortable”
neutral · production · dspillett · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu full time since 2008 and has served me well my entire career”
neutral · personal · 17 yr · ctmlr · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run all our work servers on Ubuntu”
neutral · production · linsomniac · 2026-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Everywhere I've ever worked used a mainstream distro for cloud servers, like Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat or SUSE.”
neutral · production · 80fj0348i · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Spotify on Ubuntu one day stopped outputting audio and never again could I get it to work.”
neutral · personal · Waterluvian · 2026-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Boom, run the script, new Ubuntu server.”
neutral · production · stackskipton · 2026-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've seen more 5k+-core fleets running Ubuntu in prod than not, in my career.”
neutral · production · zbentley · 2026-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after decades with Ubuntu as my primary OS”
neutral · personal · 20 yr · hluska · 2025-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run proxmox on a bunch of hardware servers, but for "homelab" we use Ubuntu on ZFS + Incus cluster.”
neutral · personal · k_bx · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“starting with RHEL3, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, and finally ArchLinux”
neutral · personal · throwup238 · 2024-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu and Fedora and I LOVE the simple and straightforward Gnome shell I have on both.”
neutral · personal · rbanffy · 2024-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“only had an Ubuntu instance available at the time”
neutral · personal · brocket · 2024-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A script that installs some dependencies on an Ubuntu vm.”
neutral · production · rozap · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have limited experience after running Ubuntu on a dual boot laptop back in school a long time ago.”
neutral · personal · TrueSlacker0 · 2024-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're running Ubuntu LTS, not some bleeding edge arch.”
neutral · production · vladvasiliu · 2024-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That being said, Ubuntu in prod.”
neutral · production · arittr · 2024-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“runs using Docker Compose on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS”
neutral · personal · stackskipton · 2024-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if I were to re-image that computer I'd probably go back to either Fedora or Ubuntu.”
neutral · personal · starttoaster · 2023-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Think it runs ubuntu server. Runs Valheim. Also in docker compose.”
neutral · personal · efxhoy · 2023-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can and do run WordPerfect 8 for Linux on Ubuntu 22.04, alongside MS Word 2003.”
neutral · personal · lproven · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the same issue happens at wake from sleep in Ubuntu”
neutral · personal · FirmwareBurner · 2023-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it feels faster that the Ubuntu 20.04 I was using before on the same machine.”
neutral · personal · pmontra · 2023-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“at places where we move fast and break things, we run ubuntu and IT says for us to manage it ourselves”
neutral · production · chaosbutters314 · 2023-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For Cloud, Debian containers, with Ubuntu and Amazon Linux VMs as we run in AWS.”
neutral · production · marianord · 2023-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as well as user desktops (e.g. Ubuntu Desktop, Fedora, etc).”
neutral · production · veidr · 2023-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using vftool with arm64 Ubuntu server cloudimg.”
neutral · personal · pram · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a ubuntu linux laptop/desktop”
neutral · personal · AtomicOrbital · 2022-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been forced to move to Ubuntu for work with my new job.”
neutral · production · tsukurimashou · 2022-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Mac, Fedora and Ubuntu, and just sync my projects across all machines with local virtualenvs”
neutral · personal · rcarmo · 2022-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've switched to Ubuntu LTS, with Premium support from Canonical where needed.”
neutral · production · frameset · 2022-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“deploy to containers (or occasionally bare) Ubuntu or AWS Linux.”
neutral · production · bigiain · 2022-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run prod on LTS versions of Ubuntu so that doesn't happen very frequently, gets caught by our staging server”
neutral · production · nicoburns · 2022-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to Ubuntu instead of CentOS 8 which was our original plan.”
neutral · production · bombcar · 2022-06-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I went the other way with debian and ubuntu as they are close-ish enough to have a similar setup in prod and on my laptop”
neutral · production · csdvrx · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have an Ubuntu container around if I quickly wanna mess with something.”
neutral · personal · lillecarl · 2021-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“an Ubuntu machine with up-to-date guest tools for the version of VMWare we use”
neutral · production · manicdee · 2021-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using WSL for around 3+ years now, but with Ubuntu) ((and no GUI) installed.”
neutral · personal · 3 yr · lukaszkups · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every night we build a new freshly patched Ubuntu image.”
neutral · production · Spivak · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I actually develop C# applications on Mac and run them in production on Ubuntu”
neutral · production · cyral · 2021-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“openzfs/ubuntu in prod for kafka clusters”
neutral · production · anotherhue · 2021-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been trying to use Linux on the laptop (Ubuntu) for the past month or so. I find it ok.”
neutral · personal · jkmcf · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It runs Ubuntu 18.04 with LXDE as a lightweight desktop environment.”
neutral · personal · Anthony-G · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Any gnome extension I've installed I came to regret it without exception (on Ubuntu).”
neutral · personal · bonoboTP · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched off Arch to Ubuntu but I've been using i3 ever since.”
neutral · personal · abetlen · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I particularly noticed this when I was running a newer version of Gnome on Fedora 31, but then running an older version of Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04 (for work).”
neutral · production · therealrootuser · 2020-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Meanwhile over on Debian/Ubuntu/PopOS/Plasma, I can finally run the latest games”
neutral · personal · indymike · 2020-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“something I run natively on my Ubuntu laptop.”
neutral · personal · pmontra · 2020-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I personally run Ubuntu on my laptop and servers.”
neutral · personal · yjftsjthsd-h · 2020-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“build it on relatively recent version of Ubuntu and deploy to a (almost EOL) RHEL6 box”
neutral · production · mzaccari · 2020-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried with two different drives using Ubuntu 20.04 and jazip.”
neutral · personal · Gregordinary · 2020-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have an Ubuntu VM at home that I do dev in for other stuff.”
neutral · personal · james_s_tayler · 2019-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“"Ubuntu Docker 5:19.03.1~3 on 18.04" image”
neutral · production · it · 2019-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Via PXE boot, people would regularly reinstall their system for various reasons, so it would regularly be a fresh Ubuntu install.”
neutral · personal · lucb1e · 2019-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“inside of which we run an Ubuntu 12.04 Docker container (the Steam runtime), which runs an Arch Linux chroot”
neutral · production · coldpie · 2019-08-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a VM running Ubuntu for a lot of things”
neutral · personal · dpkonofa · 2019-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only feature that I'm aware of which we have in the Ubuntu kernel and hasn't been merged upstream yet is support for overlayfs inside user namespaces.”
neutral · production · stgraber · 2018-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to a Ubuntu vm, running LXD, an then proper lxc containers”
neutral · production · iamNumber4 · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using CentOS and Ubuntu Server to run my webservers for around twelve years now, which includes a top-1000 website in the US.”
neutral · production · 12 yr · Zarel · 2018-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“because we use Ubuntu in prod, and I run Ubuntu on Windows”
neutral · production · jmartrican · 2018-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My Linux need is limited so I run the Ubuntu installed from the Microsoft App Store.”
neutral · personal · Amygaz · 2018-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This system uses Ubuntu 16.04, so supposedly control of this subsystem is more limited”
neutral · personal · pasbesoin · 2018-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The times are consistent for both Ubuntu 16.04 and Mac OS X.”
neutral · production · cik · 2018-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our libraries operate on 100% open source with Ubuntu supported by a local company.”
neutral · production · sidstling · 2018-08-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Oh, and we run all of the rest of our infrastructure on Ubuntu.”
neutral · production · bmurphy1976 · 2018-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“escalating to debian or ubuntu as a last resort when needed for exhotic packages and such.”
neutral · production · simon_acca · 2018-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as old as Debian 6 (some ancient proprietary software I had to dockerize) over Ubuntu 16.04 and as brand new as Debian nightly”
neutral · production · mschuster91 · 2017-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“some Ubuntu 16.04 for other product lines”
neutral · production · kev009 · 2017-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After being bitten by this at least twice, I shifted everything to Ubuntu.”
neutral · production · abrookewood · 2017-08-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have this one, been using it with Ubuntu 14.04 on my W520 Thinkpad”
neutral · personal · jmiserez · 2016-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on over 1500 instances in AWS EC2 with Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04”
neutral · production · tnorgaard · 2016-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have messed with ZFS on Linux on Ubuntu”
neutral · personal · devoply · 2016-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the same Java on their PCs that we run on the live Ubuntu 14.04 servers.”
neutral · production · davidgerard · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use gmail, github and everything else the cool kids use and we all use Ubuntu on our desktops.”
neutral · production · ageofwant · 2016-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They run a version of Ubuntu 14.04 on top of it that most notably includes package management.”
neutral · personal · enjo · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using different models from the X-Series with Ubuntu since 08.04”
neutral · personal · 8 yr · hussong · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That's how we run our Linode slices with the stock kernels from Ubuntu.”
neutral · production · sdeziel · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I encountered this problem with SSH failing to start on Ubuntu 16.04 server.”
neutral · production · dingaling · 2016-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can't imagine trying to run the cluster we run on Ubuntu, trying to roll my own Docker/etc/flannel installs.”
neutral · production · chrissnell · 2016-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were using Ubuntu and Upstart, and when Debian announced systemd, Ubuntu announced the end of Upstart.”
neutral · production · themartorana · 2016-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've switched to Debian Jessie over 14.04 a few months back for systemd and more up-to-date dependencies too.”
neutral · production · Ambroos · 2016-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“replaced it with a not-much-newer HP desktop running Ubuntu”
neutral · personal · klange · 2015-09-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use docker to boot up Ubuntu 14.04 containers and run the services with special needs in them.”
neutral · production · fu86 · 2015-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Debian and hence Ubuntu, which is what we run on live - a mix of 12.04 and 14.04.”
neutral · production · davidgerard · 2015-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use ubuntu servers for our infrastructure, it would be nice to deliver files from certain servers”
neutral · production · nodefortytwo · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the scripts work out of the box on Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS”
neutral · production · deckiedan · 2014-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“just use an Ubuntu image with docker as my virtual dev environment.”
neutral · personal · tracker1 · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I ended up creating a separate Ubuntu VM to run as an NFS server.”
neutral · production · HorizonXP · 2014-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In the default configuration provided by the php5-mssql package in Ubuntu, text fields were chopped at 255 characters.”
neutral · production · sarciszewski · 2014-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Used Ubuntu prior to that, and RedHat prior to that.”
neutral · personal · ishbits · 2014-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Moved to Fedora, then Ubuntu, and then finally to Debian.”
neutral · personal · omerhj · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of my work is on Linux machines of one flavor or another (mostly RHEL and a few Ubuntu)”
neutral · production · cestes · 2014-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run VirtualBox with a stock Ubuntu 14.04 image with docker installed”
neutral · production · zrail · 2014-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On my Debian/Ubuntu systems (that weren't in production and that I was free to play with)”
neutral · personal · danielweber · 2014-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“who has recently started using Upstart with Ubuntu in production”
neutral · production · bsmith · 2014-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At the creation of these users, Ubuntu Server assigned them bash as their shell.”
neutral · production · muyuu · 2014-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried to switch again when we moved to Amazon, but sadly it wasn't an option so I went to Ubuntu instead.”
neutral · production · jedberg · 2014-08-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We recently switched ... from deployment on ubuntu servers via 'git pull' managed with supervisord to docker/coreos/fleet”
neutral · production · rckclmbr · 2014-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The devs these days tend to prefer Arch and Ubuntu”
neutral · production · eitally · 2014-04-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this in ubuntu (ctrl-alt-v in keepassx).”
neutral · personal · xur17 · 2013-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It took me all of an afternoon to redo the configuration management and provisioning and migrate my projects when Ubuntu 13.10 came out.”
neutral · production · vinceguidry · 2013-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“1 work box running Precise, 1 home box running Saucy, 1 laptop running Precise”
neutral · personal · BadassFractal · 2013-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a Ubuntu box for development and rvm/bundler, virtualenv/pip...cover my needs”
neutral · personal · irahul · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I learned about as much about the above topics in a week of doing server admin stuff as I did in years of running Ubuntu with GNOME.”
neutral · personal · lightcatcher · 2013-08-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu as my primary OS for over 6 years now”
neutral · personal · 6 yr · edtechdev · 2013-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We could start from a base ubuntu, get to a point where our app could run”
neutral · production · dekz · 2013-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run these on various versions of RHEL, Debian , Ubuntu and FreeBSD”
neutral · production · noselasd · 2013-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They used the desktop version of Ubuntu because no one in the 13-man IT operation knew how to use Bash.”
neutral · production · RKoutnik · 2013-02-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just started installing Ubuntu and using the defaults without customization. And that's the way I primarily use my devices.”
neutral · personal · jeffcutsinger · 2013-01-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using LXDE with Ubuntu for over a year now.”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · thejosh · 2012-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Saying "FU" and return back to my Ubuntu to continue coding.”
neutral · personal · hippich · 2012-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use OSX more then win and then it comes ubuntu, which is unfortunate for ubuntu.”
neutral · personal · desireco42 · 2012-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Ubuntu exclusively for a year, and alongside with Windows for at least three years before that”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · BerislavLopac · 2012-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using GS 3.6 on the Gnome Ubuntu Remix (12.10) on the desktop for a bit”
neutral · personal · keithpeter · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on the same hardware booted into Ubuntu 12.10”
neutral · personal · ChuckMcM · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We support 11.04 and above. Anything less than that is missing some kernel features we use.”
neutral · production · coffeemug · 2012-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think Firefox performs better on Ubuntu.”
neutral · personal · jeremyjh · 2012-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're now on a Hetzner Ubuntu vServer which worked out to be 11x cheaper than a lower speced instance on Azure”
neutral · production · mythz · 2012-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also run Ubuntu on a number of machines.”
neutral · production · vidarh · 2012-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is true, in the Ubuntu packages this is printed to the default log at /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log.”
neutral · personal · werkshy · 2012-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've got a few servers personally that I run, all are either Debian or Ubuntu. That's what I run on my laptop and desktop”
neutral · personal · bmelton · 2011-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Debian/Ubuntu since ~ 1999”
neutral · personal · 12 yr · dlitz · 2011-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Ubuntu (and other Linuxes) in the shop for various things”
neutral · production · thaumaturgy · 2011-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Natty and am currently on Oneric.”
neutral · personal · kitsune_ · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using ubuntu since version 4 or so, and Unity has made me switch the windowing manager.”
neutral · production · 7 yr · wildmXranat · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Works on my KDE4 (over Ubuntu) .. only been using KDE since about 98/99”
neutral · personal · pbhjpbhj · 2011-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Operating systems we run Dropbox on at my house: Ubuntu, OSX, iOS, Windows, Blackberry 5.”
neutral · personal · brlewis · 2011-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have to use rvm in production because debian/ubuntu install ruby 1.8 and I need 1.9.2 for rails 3.”
neutral · production · SpikeGronim · 2011-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my laptops run Ubuntu and/or Win7”
neutral · personal · jamesbritt · 2010-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“coming from a .deb based distro you will probably find all the minor differences in RPM based distros really annoying”
neutral · personal · DrJokepu · 2010-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Using Ubuntu in production environment.”
neutral · production · luffy · 2010-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We currently run Ubuntu Linux on it but would switch to FreeBSD 8.x if the Java support was better.”
neutral · production · sgt · 2010-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used Ubuntu on my desktop for the last 1.5 years.”
neutral · personal · 1.5 yr · moon_of_moon · 2010-09-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We tried Ubuntu in the workplace for admin staff at the same time as Vista.”
neutral · production · _b8r0 · 2010-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“independently of the Ubuntu release cycle (as I do)”
neutral · production · jdub · 2010-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Ubuntu because the CentOS repos were getting rather stale.”
neutral · production · niels_olson · 2010-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I installed DB2 Express-C on my Ubuntu box”
neutral · personal · derwiki · 2010-01-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?