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So if I understand what you're saying, if someone asks you "Hey, could you recommend me a general purpose Linux distribution?", you'd recommend them Ubuntu Server rather than just straight up Ubuntu?

I'd agree both could be used in a general-purpose way, but I'd definitively call one of them more general-purpose than the other.



95% of my VM's run Ubuntu Server LTS, so yes, that is what I would recommend if I was a recommending person.


If they need a general purpose distro for a server, absolutely.

That would likely be a better recommendation than android.


But that wasn't the question, what they ask is specifically "Hey, could you recommend me a general purpose Linux distribution?", would you still first recommend Ubuntu Server?


Sure, why not?


Because it isn’t general purpose, it is for servers.

You are being _/




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