Ubuntu Linux Valuable Features
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Kadir Kokcu
Owner at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
I find Ubuntu Linux to be a stable operating system and open-source, supporting almost all features as expected for an operating system, and it's widely supported by any open-source applications.
It is widely supported by almost all applications.
Ubuntu Linux continuously improves itself; it supports almost every new feature, and AI projects benefit from these developments, as well as every web-based project due to support for at least three or four web platforms such as Apache and Nginx.
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Mohammad Rosli Sukri
manager at SSDU Innovations
The features of Ubuntu Linux that I find most useful and beneficial are the automatic Yum update repository and making software updates easy.
There are automatic update repositories in Ubuntu Linux.
Regarding the specific scenario where security features of Ubuntu Linux have impacted my operations positively, I don't think there's any specific instance, but the main aspect of Ubuntu Linux is that the updates in terms of security are very fast, and it is very easy to deploy. This would be defined as a positive outcome.
View full review »I am currently using Ubuntu Linux internally in my company, and for customers too.
For long-term support, it has been good because in most enterprise environments, people still use Ubuntu Linux sixteen, which is quite obsolete now. Other enterprise versions do not support obsolete systems, so supportability is good in terms of Ubuntu Linux. For sustainability, it's quite a significant point of view for every organization. For us, Ubuntu Linux is the preferable way.
The documentation for Ubuntu Linux is quite extensive; you'll gain the information that we intend to, but you need to have the ability to navigate through the documents. That's very good knowledge that they provide, and that's a solid point from me.
Most people prefer Ubuntu Linux. If they want any specific tooling, such as SAP applications, people use SUSE or Red Hat for specific hybrid infrastructures related to security. If people want reliability and flexibility to run anything, they use Ubuntu Linux. Compatibility with hardware is very good with Ubuntu Linux; I have seen very few issues regarding compatibility.
The first advantage is that it's price-efficient as far as the enterprise version is concerned. There's not a very big difference, but if you are running ten to twenty thousand fleets, those few dollars could mean a lot for some organizations. The second advantage is compatibility with any hardware, and the third is reliable OS updates and support.
Any Linux is scalable in terms of capacity, and on a day-to-day basis, we use scalability options with the help of Kubernetes clusters. It's very convenient to scale it up to any form needed because Ubuntu Linux itself is a lightweight OS.
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I believe everything works faster than it used to in Windows. I have never experienced a crash on Ubuntu Linux. The system works great with perfect stability.
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David Stevenson
Manging Director at Winworth UK
Ubuntu Linux is extremely stable, rock solid, and reliable. It can run for years without issues, providing peace of mind from a stability perspective. For any backend processing server, I would use it as long as the hardware is reliable because the operating system will just work. Red Hat Linux, a commercial suite, is also very stable and runs consistently. Ubuntu Linux's security and package management tools are excellent.
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Thong Nguyen
Bachelor of Engineering at Vaasan ammattikorkeakoulu VAMK University of Applied Sciences
Ubuntu Linux is lightweight, fast, and works seamlessly with command-line terminals. It is resource-saving and suitable for automation through scripting. Additionally, Ubuntu Linux's open-source nature supports community contributions, bolstering its development and support ecosystem. This flexibility allows for efficient programming and integration with various devices.
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I find the terminal valuable for pasting some commands and using some software as well. It's probably called a terminal and shell environment.
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Prashanth D
Techincal Support Engineer at Ibits Tech Solutions
Ubuntu Linux is user-friendly through the command line. The packages inside the repository are built-in, which allows for easy installation from the server environment without relying on third-party applications. Additionally, Ubuntu Linux supports remote troubleshooting via SSH, allowing connection from anywhere, which is beneficial for troubleshooting server issues.
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One of the best features of Ubuntu Linux is that if I need something, I just download it. Everything I need I could search for on the net and just download it and use it, whereas Windows is more problematic.
Ubuntu Linux's rapid support and extensive documentation are fine to me. Every time I need to do something, I find well-explained documentation about the process, so I have no complaints about the documentation or the info about how to do it.
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What are some of the most valuable features in your opinion with Ubuntu Linux?
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The GUI is user-friendly.
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Tac-Mac
Product Assistant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Ubuntu Linux is the most secure option on the market. For business-focused people, a Mac is preferred, but for developers, Ubuntu Linux is better. Ubuntu Linux's good desktop experience makes it easy to use even if you are not comfortable using the command line. It has excellent integration with development tools, including CI/CD and Atlassian products. Most of our code development occurs on Ubuntu Linux, and it integrates deeply with development pipelines, making it straightforward to manage. Additionally, Ubuntu Linux's parent company provides canonical pipelining for machine learning, ensuring compatibility and efficiency.
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The product is easy to use. I like the tool’s performance and availability.
View full review »The product’s stability is valuable. The interface is okay.
View full review »Ubuntu Linux stands out compared to others in terms of performance. Its smooth operation and ease of use make it a preferred choice for many users. With Ubuntu, managing tasks and troubleshooting errors is straightforward thanks to its user-friendly interface and comprehensive error alerting system. Ubuntu is an open-source platform that allows easy access to error logs, making identifying and addressing issues simple.
View full review »It has a good support system for loading databases.
View full review »The integration with other solutions like Apache is valuable.
View full review »Ubuntu Linux is easy to start, and MicroK8s is easy to deploy. Plug into the back-end storage and networking is also easy.
It is good to start with 3-4 nodes, but hard to scale. For production grades like 20 or 100 nodes, we go with the RedHat for on-premise.
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Muhammad Azhar Khan
Information Technician Specialist at Self-Employed
Ubuntu is a very secure and perfect operating system. It's an open-source and free platform, which makes it accessible and useful.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Ubuntu Linux is the price because we don't need to pay as it is used for selling equipment.
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ErkanVarol
IT manager at Koleksiyon
The most valuable features of the solution are that it is a very free tool and serves as a very trustworthy product.
The security features are okay. The solution is easy to use. It performs well.
View full review »The tool's valuable feature is its pro security features. I also like the way it serves the infrastructure. The main thing is that each new update or version ensures it comes out with zero vulnerabilities—no high, medium, or low vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Linux's main benefits are its ease of use and the large number of available packages. Additionally, it benefits from regular patching.
View full review »The platform is easy to use compared to Windows.
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Karthikeyan Subramnaiam
Technical Manager at LTIMINDTREE
Ubuntu Linux is a nice product. I did not face any errors while installing the product. The product can be easily installed in VMware. It has different flavors. We can easily add patches. We can also update it easily. The solution is flexible and user-friendly. The performance is good. Everybody is moving to Hadoop. If we want to install Hadoop, Ubuntu is the best choice. We can install Hadoop on top of Ubuntu.
View full review »Ubuntu Linux is a convenient solution. I use it for file servers and web servers. I also use Linux for training purposes.
View full review »Here's what I like most about Ubuntu Linux: the support we get from the factory, from the vendor.
I also find value in being able to test things with the community and learning more about the solutions that have been proven, so we can start to elaborate more and be able to pass to production more reliable information.
In the last five years, open source was not known, or it wasn't trusted much, but the industry knows that open source is the way to go as long as you work with the right vendor. Open source is here to stay, but it would always be dependent on the right partner, because there is a lot of open source software, but if they are not maintained, secured, or controlled, they are just like a train without a driver.
Based on all these, we love Linux, especially because of what we have learned in the last two months: We started to migrate customers from Microsoft SQL from Windows to Linux because the performance you can get from Linux with SQL from Microsoft, it's unparalleled.
You have more advantage from the power of Linux and you can cut off the cost of an operating system by using Linux with Microsoft SQL. We are starting to do that in the enterprise market because we believe that is a great step for them to reduce costs and to start making more powerful ETLs and queries, and faster processes, at a better price, because Linux is much more affordable.
Even in the Cloud, you'll find that a Windows instance is $400, while a Linux instance running SQL is $100 a month. It's a good thing here in Latin America, where we are going to start doing this. We are also seeing that there is a great opportunity in other countries in Europe.
We provide support for Red Hat, CentOS, and other distributions, but we have a solid relationship with Ubuntu Linux, with Canonical. We are a partner. With this solution, we are able to do more. We are able to explore a lot.
With Linux from Red Hat, we have been asked to manage, because in Peru, there were not many companies that had the knowledge to manage the workloads, but we prefer to use Canonical.
If a customer comes and asks us to manage their Red Hat Linux servers, we can definitely think about it because we have the skill. In our team, we have LPIC-1 engineers specialized in Linux so we can run any workloads over Linux.
Ubuntu Linux is very good.
There is a big advantage in security when using Ubuntu Linux that you will not have in the Windows environments short-term. When you have this relationship with Linux and you start working with very secure environments, there's less possibility of being directly attacked by a group of hackers. You will lose less data and you will have a more reliable ecosystem.
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Nicholas De Villiers
System Administrator at Figment Design Laboratories
There are far too many great features to mention, however, some are:
- Rsync for backups
- ZFS for snapshotting partitions
- LXD/LXC for containerization of services
- QEMU for Virtualisation of servers
- Seamless updating and upgrading
- Ansible for estate wide server administration
- Nagios for server monitoring
- Grafana with Prometheus/InfluxDB to provide metrics on performance
- LDAP for user management
These are only a few features that I make use of on a daily basis and from a sysadmin standpoint my life has become easier.
View full review »The most valuable features of Ubuntu Linux is the reliability, the ease of package management, and the ease of upgrading from one version to the next.
With Ubuntu Linux you can set it and forget it. It requires low amount of administrative overhead.
View full review »I like the fact that I can make it very secure with my own knowledge, which makes it different from Windows that does things in the background by magic, and you hope that it's secure. I like the availability of starting with Linux with totally minimal permissions for anybody and then increasing it on an as-needed basis. This is probably the most important to me. That's where I also love CentOS for Linux because you do a minimal install, and then there is a whole bunch of stuff you can't do without installing packages, which is quite nice in some ways and painful in other ways.
I like the versatility of it. When I first started here, which was like eight years ago, we were running some stuff as virtual machines inside a Linux host instead of doing it with VMware. Then we finally got VMware licensing, but before that, we were doing some virtual machines within Linux itself, and it was working quite well.
View full review »Apart from a subscription based pricing, the product's free version is highly useful, offering multiple graphical user interface (desktop environments) options. Ubuntu can be installed on server (server verion), workstation & standard PC, also it is available as Ubuntu terminal environment on Windows with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This caters to a wide range of system and user needs. Its Linux-based nature makes it preferred among technical professionals, including developers and network administrators.
I like that it is free.
There's ample documentation available for most features, and I find it straightforward to use.
View full review »I use Ubuntu Linux to update some drivers related to some of my work.
View full review »The tool is stable. It can automate the updates like Microsoft.
View full review »Firstly, it's open source, and secondly, I like its computation speed compared to Windows and other similar features.
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Mohamed Anees
Lead DevOps Engineer at Etisalat
One of the most valuable features of Ubuntu Linux is how easy it is to manage. We have some monitoring solutions, so those applications are running on top of Ubuntu. So far, the applications are running in a way that's very stable, compared to other Linux versions and flavors. In terms of redundancy and the command line, it's very easy to manage.
View full review »In Ubuntu, we use both the application and the storage. Those are the features we use frequently. We also use process management, which is how the process runs over the Ubuntu for the applications, which we review. If there is an issue with the processing, we will then troubleshoot and make it live.
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Charles White Jr
Lead Desktop Support Technician at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Ubuntu doesn't use a lot of resources. So I think that's pretty cool. It's totally like Microsoft.
View full review »The best way and the easiest way to get into Linux is with Ubuntu because they provide lots of hardware support out of the box.
You don't have to go into the deep parts with Ubuntu to install and configure it. There are many, ready-made guides online for Ubuntu, which is good.
The Linux distribution is the best for laptops. If you are using laptops, you don't want to be running Oracle Linux there or Red Hat. It's going to be Ubuntu.
I like the easiness of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a great product. It's awesome.
Canonical as a company, who is responsible for Ubuntu, is doing a great job at making Ubuntu very easy, plug and play, and they are good at porting applications to Ubuntu. If you're talking about Linux, the easiest Linux distribution you can encounter is Ubuntu.
The distribution with the most packages available to it is Ubuntu.
In terms of user-friendliness, Ubuntu is the best it can get in the Linux world. To say that it could be improved would be unfair. They are the ones bridging the user-friendliness gap in the Linux world.
The main distinguishing feature between Ubuntu and other Linux distribution is that Ubuntu has excelled at user-friendliness. It's very easy to use.
View full review »The data storage capabilities are great.
We love the fact that this solution is open-source. It's free to use.
The product can scale.
The solution is stable.
The solution is easy to install.
View full review »The solution is very simple.
I like that it doesn't get corrupted as easily as Windows. When it comes to viruses, it's more secure.
Especially on laptops, it doesn't drain much battery.
The solution is straightforward to set up.
It's faster than Windows.
View full review »Some of the main features of this solution are it is less prone to viruses since most viruses are written for Microsoft software, and it is easy to use.
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ImanDarabi
CTO at GreenWeb
There are many good automation features in Ubuntu. For example, there is a new version of Netplan Fortune which is a network manager and it is very good at managing a network of virtual machines. Ubuntu is optimized, which makes it really nice, as we can optimize Ubuntu as much as we want. For example, I had a good experience in traffic management, as I could optimize the system and Linux to make it efficient. Ubuntu is easy to obtain information for because there is a lot of documentation, and there is also a large community where you can have questions answered. Linux systems like Ubuntu and Centos enable you to work quickly, and easily. This includes installing a lot of programs, easily, as and when you need them. For example, when we are deploying the OpenStack operating system, we can use many sources, such as Galera Cluster. All of these packages are pre-compiled and pre-deployed on operating systems like Ubuntu.
View full review »Ubuntu Linux has good security features and a lot of software compatibility. Not many operating systems support software like MicroStrategy, but Ubuntu Linux is quite flexible and provides all the interfaces and compatibility for different software.
View full review »It's easy to deploy. We can deploy it whenever we want.
It's great to use with the Linux system. They work well together.
If you know what you want to program, they make it very easy to do so.
The solution is very stable. It's great for security and it is very safe.
The installation process is simple.
View full review »What makes Ubuntu easy to use is the large set of applications and the interface. The graphical interface is user friendly.
View full review »It's stable.
The solution is free to use and open-source. There is no license needed, which is actually better, even though I like Windows.
Our cloud server's a Linux-based operating system. I need to deploy my software on our cloud server. I just use Linux on my local server. Whatever I do for my software in my local server, the same needs to happen in the cloud server. That part is easy. I can replicate that software in my cloud server. If I do it in Microsoft Windows in that local development, that is totally different from our cloud server. It will cause issues in our cloud server. That's why I am using Linux in my system.
Linux is virus-free.
The GUI in relation to the initial setup is very simple.
View full review »The solution is stable.
The scalability is good.
In terms of deployment, it's a pretty quick process.
Ubuntu's safe and fast. People have migrated from Windows to Linux due to this.
It's offered as open-source, and therefore does not cost anything to use.
There is a strong community around it that can help with troubleshooting.
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JohanWiklund
System Administrator at Maxar Technologies
Ubuntu is great because you get most of the packages or software you need. You get the latest updates and stuff fairly fast.
View full review »The solution has a unique flavor. It is difficult to hack. It has good security features and, from a developer's point of view, provides greater control, including in respect of the processes, internals, networking and IO and voice usage, everything really.
View full review »The most valuable feature is that it's developer-friendly and easily accessible. Like any other Linux operating system, you have access to open sources, all the necessary tooling, and anything that helps developers do their work. I'm no Linux guru, but Ubuntu offers packages that I find easy to use. There are other options for people who are very skilled with Linux, but this solution has the perfect balance of having enough technical requirements to meet your needs while still being usable. It doesn't require you to be so technically proficient that you need to recompile kernels or anything like that. It's a Linux operating system for normal people.
View full review »The solution is very easy to use.
We find the solution quite stable.
The solution is cheap and open-source. It's not expensive at all.
The initial setup is simple.
View full review »Ubuntu is quite flexible. It is a direct software, where we can work directly on its OS. It works to its maximum capacity. Windows needs a refresh option to refresh its screen, but Ubuntu doesn't need that. It refreshes automatically and works well.
View full review »The most valuable features of Ubuntu Linux are it is user-friendly, has plenty of features that you can develop and builds your own code. Additionally, it is secure and easy to operate.
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ZelalemGedefie
Senior System Administrator at Debre Markos University
The solution is more secure than competitors such as Microsoft Windows.
View full review »Ubuntu Linux is more secure and has additional security features than some other operating systems.
View full review »Ubuntu Linux is developer-oriented.
View full review »Ubuntu Linux is flexible because it has a lot of new features, so you can use it without any problems.
It is a stable, open source solution as well.
View full review »The trifecta comprising the solution's most valuable features consists of its stability, security and performance.
The solution is very lightweight and extremely powerful. You can do almost anything you want to do with these systems. You don't have any limitations. For example, for Windows, there's a limitation where you can't run microservices with Docker.
Docker only runs on Linux as it is actually using the Linux channel. If Microsoft can make the Linux Subsystem for Windows run Docker it would be good. Docker and microservices are the future of everything we are doing. Using Docker and microservices is the best - and it works well on Ubuntu.
For the moment, Ubuntu actually it's installing its own philosophy which according to me is so good.
The solution is always adding more features.
The solution has great functionality and it's easier to use than Oracle or Windows.
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ManishK
Director at SafeSquid Labs
Ubuntu Linux is very easy to learn, manage, and keep updated.
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Sami Alomaisy
Manager at global trading
The most valuable features are the pseudo-terminal and it is the most open-sourced operating system that can be used.
View full review »Compared to other solutions on the market, this is a relatively suitable and good product which is stable and easy to use. Ubuntu currently serves our OpenShift environment.
View full review »The solution is very flexible.
We've found the solution to be stable and the performance is reliable.
The solution has proven to be scalable. It can scale quite well.
The initial setup is pretty straightforward.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
It is easy to use, performs great, and is stable and scalable.
Ubuntu Linux is very useful as an operating system.
It has got longer support than some Linux distributions for each version that comes out, so it's good for enterprise-level organizations.
Ubuntu is very easy to use and you can manage it on your own. Compared to other Linux distributions, it is more user-friendly.
The solution is easy to install and easy to update.
You can scale the solution quite well.
View full review »Some of the highlighted valuable features are that is based on Linux, configurable, functional, and robust.
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Buddy Parker
Founder at Element Flux
There is a lot of freedom and flexibility to install it really quickly. It is just very powerful in the sense that it doesn't take up as many resources to run as some of the other operating systems. It is open source, so it is free. There is no licensing fee.
There is flexibility and freedom to do whatever you need to do. If you are familiar with the command line, you can jump on the command line and configure almost any part of the operating system that you want. If you are not comfortable with the command line, the graphical user interface has really improved ever since I started using Linux back in high school. It is really very simple to manage your settings and other things.
You can also try out multiple desktop environments. As a matter of fact, on one of my laptops, I have installed five different desktop environments, and I can switch between them. If you don't like one, you can easily just install another one with a few commands, and you have got a whole new desktop right there, whereas, in Microsoft Windows or a Mac, you are just stuck with whatever they give you, and you have to wait until they sell you something else.
View full review »This is an excellent solution, it's stable, fast and free. From an admin perspective, we don't have issues. The solution is complete.
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DEEPEN DHULLA
Director & CTO at TechnoInfotech
Ubuntu has better security and better production in comparison to Microsoft Windows and the hardware performance is better than Microsoft. The best feature of the solution is the auto upgrade operating system we get as a support from Ubuntu. The solution is good on the support level in several aspects; the web server, database management, security management, and viral management. Ubuntu is great on all of these.
View full review »The most valuable features are that it's free and that it is simple to use.
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Bernard Bassil
System Manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features are stability and updates. We are not using the interface, the interface of the OS, we are using it as the server. We actually sync it through SSH and we deploy our application, so we don't have access to do it. The updates are very helpful and the way they update their OS is very helpful.
I think the operating system is very stable and this is a major advantage.
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Azaz Qurershi
Solution Architect at TB
For system administration, I find it useful to connect to my Linux servers directly from the command line, and I create my virtual machines using VMware Workstation.
In terms of security, I am satisfied with Ubuntu Linux and I can rely on its security features more than I can with Windows.
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Satendra Gupta
Linux System Engineer at Graviton Research Capital LLP
Ubuntu Linux's most valuable feature is its open-source nature.
View full review »Ubuntu Linux is user-friendly. Patching and patch management for the system is also good.
View full review »Its performance is valuable. I am satisfied with it.
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Amudhan Pandian
Senior Engineer - Cloud and datacenter at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There aren't exactly any particular features, but in general, it's the most compatible for us.
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Valon Balidemaj
Information Technology System Administrator at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
I like that the solution is stable and easy to manage.
There is value in the long-time supported LPS distribution and there is an updated version that has recently become available.
Ubuntu is free and stable.
View full review »Ubuntu is good for machine learning. It's also a good option for any type of application development. Ubuntu has improved a lot over the years in terms of ease of use as well.
As we have repositories in my country, the ease of use and the open source nature of the solution are valuable features. I can now install Active Directory on it.
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Faruk Kutlu
Managing Partner at Veribir Ltd
The solution is user-friendly.
View full review »Of value is that the solution is stable, easy to use, has features that are easy to connect to other Linux systems and can be managed and administered.
We can easily customize the NTS Client code.
We can customize the code ourselves.
View full review »The solution is easy to use.
View full review »It is scalable. I can customize it based on what I want to do.
View full review »The solution is easy to use for developers and DevOps teams.
The commands and user commands are very good.
The repository and the security repository are up to date, which is great.
The product is very user-friendly.
We've found the solution to be quite stable so far.
The solution is free to use.
There is a very good open-source community surrounding the solution that can help you troubleshoot if you run into any issues.
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hugodpereira
Computer engineering student at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
I found using this solution pleasurable to learn since it is something different than Windows.
View full review »It is flexible. It's the best of both worlds.
It's secure.
There is a lot of content available online that can help you, if you have an issue. There is good community support to help you with any issues you may encounter.
There are several manuals online that are free and available to help you.
View full review »The tools we are using for this project are compatible with this solution.
View full review »The main feature of the solution is it has a command-line editor.
View full review »Once you are used to it, it is quite flexible. It is more powerful because you have more control over it.
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Mariusz Czarnecki
CEO at SoniqSoft JRMM sp. z o.o. s.k.
It is stable and modern.
View full review »It keeps you secure from virus and malware attacks.
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Chirosca Alecsandru
Owner at Networks srl
It is fast and easy to install. It also supports containers and all kinds of libraries. I can do almost everything with it.
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Jean Chamoun
Assistant Researcher at CNRS
What I like best is the way in which packages are managed.
View full review »I like that everything is in the command line. It is really helpful.
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Mac Wang
Project Manager at Realnux
Ubuntu Linux has the advantage of performance. It runs very quickly.
This is a product that is being developed very quickly and it changes approximately every six months.
View full review »We're still in the learning phase. However, from what I have seen in the short time I've used it, it's been rather user-friendly.
The installation is pretty straightforward.
The solution has a very good graphical user interface.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is that Linux has cost-effective licenses.
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HimanshuTejwani
System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it is open source. It is also very easy to manage. We can manage it ourselves.
View full review »I prefer the new organization of Ubuntu. The repository is excellent.
They have provided a new interface, which is great.
I don't need the UI so much as the CLI, however, both are excellent.
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Hoveran Gao
Director of Linux Platform Software Institute at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees
The security features are what I find most valuable. It is very secure by default.
View full review »The feature that I most like in Ubuntu is that it is really easy to use. Ubuntu is very easy to use and comes with many available packages. I think that Ubuntu is a good solution for the small business or a small lab, like ours. We have a different database, more applications, and more solutions, and it's not so difficult to use Ubuntu for that.
View full review »I love the way that they introduced the Linux system by making a lot of user adjustments for beginners who'd never used Linux before. It makes the solution much more feasible for people who have never used this operating system before to start using it without too much manual configuration. The way that they included third-party drivers for easy installation is great, for example, as are drivers for the video drivers Nvidia and ATI. The operating system is customizable which is also an excellent feature. Basically, you can do almost anything you can imagine from a user interface perspective.
They also do a lot of interesting investment and they make their operating system really usable and adjustable for server systems as well. They have their own Kubernetes offering, which can be used within their operating system. It's great for IT pros.
View full review »For us, OpenStack is awesome. We want something that will be much simpler than a broad and complicated solution.
View full review »The customization of the solution is its most valuable aspect.
The solution offers good documentation.
The setup is fairly easy.
The solution's pricing is overall pretty good.
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Mahdi Bahmani
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing
Ubuntu has a good interface, it is easier to use than other distribution such as CentOS or Red Hat. It's suitable for beginners who want to start learning Linux. It has a simple interface and it's easy to use. Ubuntu is suitable for someone looking for a desktop Linux.
View full review »It's a very stable and very popular solution.
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Sergio Ferreira
Executive Director at Dynamic Tomorrow
There are many features I like about this solution, but one that stands out is that it allows me to easily install new packages and to have recent packages available.
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Stephen Murcott
System Administrator at j5 Software South Africa
The most valuable features of this solution are standardization, visualization, and package management. I also like their videos.
Ubuntu is following mainline Linux, and what Ubuntu really does well is packaging it well so that you've got a really turnkey desktop or service solution. Their stuff is pretty good as far as it goes. I've enjoyed using the product because of those things.
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Bejoy R
Unix Admin at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is the user interface. The user experience is really good.
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Yuri Zhiluk
IT Manager at TMSoft ltd
I find the stability of the solution the most valuable aspect. It's also easier software than Microsoft Windows.
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HamidShariati
Works
I find the Linux community very valuable and the fact it is open source. So it's free and I use it without any problems.
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Somchai Quint
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Linux is more stable than Windows.
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Jorge Barroso
Consultor at Scitum
Use of the tools for systems and software to test functionalities. The integration with other applications, like Chrome or Firefox, works excellent for users navigating and test browsing.
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Edward Stryzek
System Engineer at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
Each server has been installed to serve as a solution for a service needed. LAMP seems to be the most used package over all.
View full review »The Ubuntu LTS server is very stable. I use Ubuntu on most of my servers and I'm very pleased.
View full review »Because they are cheap and they do not charge me for traffic.
View full review »It's a free and open source software-defined storage (SDS) that runs on various platforms such as Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, IBM Z, among others.
It can be used for a bulk object including as an alternative to OpenStack Swift, Swiftstack, and others. Can also be configured for the block as well as the file.
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Shepherd Nhongo
Team Leader Infrastructure Management Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The package manager is easy to use & the OS supports a lot of hardware that enabled us to bring back to life old equipment and do more with less. Its ability to manage thousands of servers seamlessly using Landscape reduces the TCO by a huge margin.
View full review »I like it that Ubuntu is actually free and was one of the first with a decent hardware recognition during installation. It is still free, where some other distributions are no longer free and with a large and active community. A large community means that if you run into issues you have a place to find a solution or to help others.
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abhinav singh
Security Expert at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Ubuntu MATE provides me with a complete OS experience, so I don't have to switch between multiple OS for my work; I can do my development, usual browsing and accessing tools on the same machine.
I mostly use the OS for development purposes by running IDE like PyCharm. I also use the OS to connect to other machines in our development environment.
View full review »- Package management
- Stability
- Customization
Although Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux, it ships with (more or less) current software. In addition, there a are a lot of community-based repositories which can easily be added.
Since Ubuntu provides LTS releases with 5 years of support, you can have longer server lifecycles without having to worry about security patches.
One of the greatest things about Ubuntu is the possibility of upgrading to the newer release on the fly - no reinstallation is needed.
Other great things/features include: Great AppArmor support, huge official package repository from Canonical and the community, decent hardware support.
View full review »The OS functionalities, stability, security and the freedom to customize it.
View full review »- Security - you don't need to worry about viruses and spyware, as the system is built with security in mind and almost nothing can get in at the OS level
- Speed - the system boots up faster, and software loads faster when compared to Windows and Apple environments
- Open Source - There's a lot of software for Ubuntu that is free and without the need of licenses
Ubuntu Linux is an easy-to-use solution.
View full review »Nowadays, you can do everything with a browser, meaning you don't need a vulnerable, fancy solution like Windows for example.
View full review »The solution has high fantastic performance.
View full review »The solution is open source and free with a fast OS.
View full review »It is stable and quite easy to use as compared to other Linux operating systems. They have created a system like Windows. It is simple and without any problems.
View full review »It is open-source, secure, and easy to use.
View full review »One of the best features is that it is constantly updated.
View full review »I like this product much better than some other similar solutions.
View full review »The solution works well. It represents the standard product in our field.
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Mohd Fadhil
Security Engineer at Mavisco Resources Sdn Bhd
I like the stability of the solution. The resources are not huge compared to Windows. The solution is user-friendly.
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Ubuntu Linux
June 2025

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