Ubuntu Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Ubuntu in our company to publish our website, manage our database and as a development environment. Ubuntu is a great Linux distribution that allows you to take advantage of the capabilities of the Linux operating system. When it is running at full capacity when we need it from time to time, its performance is ahead of many of its competitors.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ubuntu is very easy to use for basic server tasks. You can install a web server like Nginx or Apache and a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL with simple commands and get automatic updates and security patches. This makes Ubuntu a reliable platform for hosting websites or backend services. However, if you need to run many security or penetration testing tools, a security focused system like Kali Linux usually works better without extra setup.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

All of our server side and some of our development machines are running on Ubuntu only. It really provides support to lot of products, languages and tools. The product is open source and their community is very huge which is really helpful incase of any issue, bugs, support and deployment related issue.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you're good with command line then you must use it. If your deployment budget is economical then go for it. Ubuntu can actually help you in learning a lot of new things and provides support for lot of tools that can be used to make life easy.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have many servers and a few workstations running Ubuntu. We wanted a nice alternative to Windows and something that was more robust and compatible for our web hosting needs. Additionally, we needed to have our chosen server system work with our tooling (Laravel Forge) and that made Ubuntu the clear choice.

Likelihood to Recommend

It really depends on the use case, but for us, we found Ubuntu to work really well as a PHP, RDBMS, Load Balancer, NGINX server for our web hosting clients. We've also found it works ok as an SFTP endpoint.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Ubuntu Linux both client side (for personal use) and server side (in my organization). I find the operating system very user-friendly and in some way comparable to a Windows operating system on the graphical side. For ealry Linux beginners it is a great alternative, as it offers a well-structured GUI as well as a fully-customizable Command Terminal. It is stable and uses apt as a packet manager (since it's a Debian-based distribution).

Likelihood to Recommend

It isn't every day you speak about these things in the office with colleagues, however I'd strongly recommend this OS to colleagues or early Linux beginners to learn and understand how the Linux world works. Mastering this operating system in its integrity and tools with the help of its stability and easy comprehension of the latter is a great first step.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Linux is the better operative system for use in applications of artificial intelligence, programming, robotics, embedded systems, and other educational and research topics. It has any issues when used on laptops that have hardware components so recently, this is because the operating system doesn't have native drivers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Linux is so appropriate to work in software development, robotics, programming, education, and for use in the daily routine.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a software solution developer and provider firm, when we initially tried to switch our major workload to Linux, there were a lot of options available, but as per the need, we wanted a system which was lightweight, have wide software and hardware support and also a good user base. After a lot of research, we settled for Ubuntu, which I would say, was our best choice so far.

It's still very good, have support for many languages and also Web Development, right out of the box, which makes it so much better, plus it's also understandable and easy to work with for the user, who's using Linux for the first time. Till today, I'll recommend Ubuntu to someone without thinking twice.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well, if you're looking for a development environment for Software Development, Android Development, Web Applications etc, you can go 100% with the Ubuntu Linux, but if you want to be a Graphic designer, Video Editor, animator, Game developer etc, I would say not to go fully with Ubuntu, that's not because Ubuntu is not great in these tasks, but the lack of support of some proprietary software on the Ubuntu Linux, which makes is harder for a newcomer to work on the Ubuntu Linux.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Possible alternative for CentOS Distribution.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited in Web Services, FTP, Virtualization...Less appropriate in Graphic User Experience.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it specifically for test automation of front and backend systems. I'm using it by harnessing an AWS AMI to spin up EC2 instances dynamically for test running. So, Ubuntu [Linux] is just a headless way for me to deploy dependencies to the image and then execute the automated tests.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ubuntu Linux works great for a lightweight, easy-to-learn and stand up distro of Linux. You really can't go wrong, and Canonical really supports this distro well with two channels: LTS (long-term support) and the more recent channel if you are more daring. I recommend LTS for all scenarios as it has been much more thoroughly tested for compatibility.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We need a Linux based OS for our Machine Learning Engineering needs and Ubuntu is one of the most mature ones out there. Also, it is supported by our IT, hence we use that. For our organization, it is important that the OS has wide community support. Ubuntu supports almost all of the Machine Learning packages that we may need and is therefore the perfect OS for us.

Likelihood to Recommend

When suited:

<ul><li>When you need a Linux based OS that respects your privacy.</li><li>For ML engineers. </li><li>For an easy to use interface.

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When not suited:

<ul><li>For non power users go for windows e.g. for Business Analysts, Managers, etc.</li><li>If you extensively use Microsoft office go for Windows.</li><li>If you are a gamer, go for Windows.</li></ul>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In most of our virtual machines and servers we generally use Ubuntu Linux to address specific system requirements for clouds as well to carry out various POCs running in the organization. Various clients associated with our company prefer Ubuntu as their OS to work on. Our own organisation's cloud based applications are deployed on Ubuntu servers as well.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best cases I see for Ubuntu is to manage cloud applications with its architecture. It is easy to implement on Linux based systems and is more safe and reliable in case of process management and virus attacks.

On the contrary it is not suitable to use for beginners who are familiar to work in a good GUI environment.