How many of these additional proprietary drivers are needed on cloud servers, which are based on popular hardware configurations?
What are the numbers of people still installing servers on the real hardware and needing these proprietary drivers?
What are the numbers of people still installing servers on the real hardware and needing these proprietary drivers?
Yes I think people try the new distro for cloud by using it on a cheap cloud. Much cheaper and less time consuming than actually reinstalling a desktop. Unless one wants to build emotional attachment to one or another distro instead of testing & measuring things.
Is AI changing the game where more people want bare metal and GPUs with proprietor drivers?
A fair few years ago I did run Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop when I wanted some more similarity with my servers which ran Debian.
And similar breakdowns with Fedora/RHEL.
But Ubuntu or Fedora on a server? No thanks.
I get the sense that the OP of this particular thread was asking about Ubuntu in general, not just the server. If it was the server, I'd understand it, but Ubuntu on the desktop still makes sense. And yes, Ubuntu is in my gaming laptop.
Yes, for GPU workloads or just raw container orchestration platforms. Or gaming!
> Fedora on a server? No thanks.
Fedora's pokemon evolution turns it into RHEL, with not much change.
A lot of those are running on bespoke hardware specific to the hyperscaler.