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As someone who has used Ubuntu in the past and has now moved onto greener pastures, I appreciate everything Canonical and Ubuntu have done for the Linux community but there are many better options today and Canonical is already far from the company it once used to be.

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There have always been better distributions than Ubuntu. That isn’t something new. What Canonical did better than anyone else was mass market appeal. Or at least appeal to a wider market than Linux traditionally had. But as someone who’s used Linux since the 90s, I was always underwhelmed by Ubuntu as a distribution.

That all said, I have to work with a lot of CentOS and Rocky workstations for VFX and I enjoy those for desktop Linux even less than Ubuntu.

I hate it when people say stuff like this and then don’t express their opinions on the better alternatives.

They mean Nix and Arch.

Whenever I see an open job req for canonical I run for the hills.

They must have a fast revolving door. I have know so many people who worked there in the last few years but seem to have moved in.

Probably depends on the team and the worst ones have a lot of churn.

From what I see on Glassdoor they have bad, toxic management so that would explain a lot.

what would your top suggestions be for server or desktop, instead of ubuntu? Arch (too unstable for server?), Silverblue?

Recently installed PopOS on my desktop. That is currently my top suggestion as an Ubuntu alternative

Debian for server, Fedora or openSUSE Tumbleweed for desktop.

Thanks, I've started going that way too (back to Debian for server based)

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