Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS
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Best OS, worst desktop
What do you like best about the product?
I like the power and efficiency of using the Bash shell for scripting, as well as the robust and secure environment for peace of mind.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Unity environment and Amazon integration in Ubuntu are pretty unnecessary, but this is easily remedied by installing a different distro that is still Ubuntu-based (e.g. Linux Mint).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ubuntu runs many developer machines, with the benefit of widespread support and being free to use.
Everyday user
What do you like best about the product?
Works out of the box, easy to start from scratch. Easy to configure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sluggish UI, always problems with nVidia drivers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Free operation system for development
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good start for Linux user
Better with Gnome
What do you like best about the product?
The GNOME desktop environment makes Ubuntu extensible and less intrusive. The release cycle of Ubuntu is dependable and releases are easy to upgrade to. Ubuntu is stable and makes a great bootable flash drive. APT is a great package manager as well. I have had a great time using Ubuntu as a headless server as well, as it is a very stable and well-documented platform, and has many options on services like AWS.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Unity Desktop is atrocious (and previously invasive). The only downside to APT is that Canonical is slow with updating the main package repository, which means that there is a longer wait for updates from many of the standard software packages, as opposed to a constant release like Arch.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Developing on one of the most common systems to deploy on makes it easier for teams to test software locally without the need to upload to a continuous integration service. This helps finding platform specific bugs as soon as possible.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ubuntu has one of the best communities in the Linux world and is also easier to switch to from Mac OS or Windows than some of the other distributions. Finding help for problems is easy and the software is mature + well maintained. The Unity Desktop environment is much worse than the GNOME shell environment.
A beginner friendly distribution
What do you like best about the product?
It is the most beginner friendly distribution I have come across. You won't need to install drivers, in most cases, for anything. If anything goes wrong, you'll find its solution in no-time. It has a very friendly community which don't hesitate to help.
What do you dislike about the product?
When it is newly installed, system is very fast and responsive. But as the time passes, it gets slower and starts lagging. I faced issues with display as it becomes laggy. One thing I disliked most is lack of support for graphics card drivers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am developer and most of the tools I use performs very well on Linux OS. I've tried various Linux distributions but I got stuck with ubuntu because it doesn't require setup for everything. And it has an awesome community, so if I face an issue, I can find it's solution in very short span of time.
Great software for Linux for an ISO File
What do you like best about the product?
I like the friendly user interface and the functionality, as well as the way I can import ISO files. It is relatively user friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the limitations and the fact that it is slow for upgrades. It is not supported as much as some of the other environments. Limited software and lack of customization is also a drawback.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Ubuntu to run a virtual machine or a dual boot operating system.
Ubuntu - An awesome OS for beginner Linux Users to learn
What do you like best about the product?
User Experience of Ubuntu is the best among all the Linus distros I have tried out. It is very useful for a beginner who has just started with Linux.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ubuntu Software Center should be updated with new software versions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
From business perspective, most important advantage is that it is free and open source.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider Ubuntu if you are a startup who won't like to invest in OS and still would like to have a well supported OS with all the features for rapid development.
Friendly Linux for everyone and any PC
What do you like best about the product?
Ubuntu is super easy to install. It works well, and on most any hardware. I haven't had a problem installing Ubuntu anywhere.
Get a Live CD (or USB stick) and boot, and check it works on your machine before even having to commit to installing.
Heck, I've even used Ubuntu Live CDs to fix corrupt Windows installations.
It is also well-supported with regular six-monthly releases, and an avid community behind it.
Get a Live CD (or USB stick) and boot, and check it works on your machine before even having to commit to installing.
Heck, I've even used Ubuntu Live CDs to fix corrupt Windows installations.
It is also well-supported with regular six-monthly releases, and an avid community behind it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ubuntu hides some things from power users. You can get them, of course, if you know what you're doing but the default environment doesn't have a terminal pinned to the tray but yet has Amazon there.
Also, it wants to be rebooted routinely. This is in contrast to much of the UNIX legacy of being able to run for years and years, unlike Windows' weekly / monthly reboot requirement.
Also, there is some quality control issues. I find that things break when doing nothing more than a usual apt-get upgrade without any advanced or unusual tweaking. For instance, syslog fills up with problems when Python is upgraded and other apps - that were installed by Ubuntu - can't find Python anymore, because the Python upgrade didn't preserve a symlink.
Also, it wants to be rebooted routinely. This is in contrast to much of the UNIX legacy of being able to run for years and years, unlike Windows' weekly / monthly reboot requirement.
Also, there is some quality control issues. I find that things break when doing nothing more than a usual apt-get upgrade without any advanced or unusual tweaking. For instance, syslog fills up with problems when Python is upgraded and other apps - that were installed by Ubuntu - can't find Python anymore, because the Python upgrade didn't preserve a symlink.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ubuntu is always a good choice for a server where you don't want/need Windows-specific software (e.g. Exchange) and don't want the overhead of Windows, and importantly, where you just want to be able to ssh into the box without having to deal with the overhead of a GUI.
Ubuntu provides a very low-cost / low-spec server for a very versatile range of things.
Ubuntu provides a very low-cost / low-spec server for a very versatile range of things.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Keep in mind Ubuntu Linux - and other Linux distributions - are at no cost, but you will want to pay for support if you are using it in an enterprise setting. You can't forget that.
Great operating system to keep costs low
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it's free, open source and community supported.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support can be spotty, especially hardware support. Some community users have definitely have an attitude. Certain problems can be unsolved for long time if nobody in the community decide to take charge of the solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it to run an in-house GPU-based image processing application for medical imaging. I can easily harness the raw power of my machine and GPUs.
Great OS for development and server build
What do you like best about the product?
I really like up-to-date software in official repositories. This linux distribution is the most stable one with a huge community, which provides a fast bug tracking and fixing. I also like how is easy is to set up a dev environment on ubuntu, official repos have latest versions of compilers and server software so all in nearly out-of-the box.
What do you dislike about the product?
As all linux OSs, we still don't have any nice graphical editor like Photoshop, gimp does not make the same work, so we still have to create VMs with windows to work with software like PS. Also they should increase the amount of drivers for GPUs and make an easy way to install them
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using linux as development PC OS, because it gives a nice fundament for developers to work on. Easy local server setup and full control.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to set up a local dev environment in web development - Ubuntu is a best choice because of its stability, reliability and amazing power of linux core.
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