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I still use Ubuntu server. It’s not nearly as atrocious as Ubuntu desktop.
I use Ubuntu desktop for my server! What can I say? I installed it one night on my desktop to see how it felt and my experiment turned into an entire fucking server because "already here. More convenient."
I run 3d printer management software on an old Dell server using desktop ubuntu. Works just fine. I made a second user account that hosts a minecraft server, and a third user account that runs a steam account to host a 7 days to die server. I really wanted to get into administering my own home lab, but I'm just too casual and there is not enough time in the day for me to do all of my hobbies. I can remote in and see a GUI, easy day.
A "server" is just a remote computer "serving" you stuff, after all. Although, if you have stuff you would have trouble setting up again from scratch, I'd recommend you look into making at least these parts of your setup repeatable, be it something fancy ala Ansible, or even just a couple of bash scripts to install the correct packages and backing up your configs.
Once you're in this mindset and take this approach by default, changing machines becomes a lot less daunting in general. A new personal machine takes me about an hour to setup, preparing the USB included.
If it's stuff you don't care about losing, ignore everything I just said. But if you do care about it, I'd slowly start by giving from the most to least critical parts. There's no better time to do it than when things are working well haha!
Saving your comment for later, when people who know far more than either of us tell you why that's a horrible idea.
I wouldn't take too seriously anyone saying it's a horrible idea. I mean, I think you could always argue it's a waste of resources running a GUI for a thing intended to be a server. But headless servers aren't the end all be all. I'm sure there's a lot of licensed redhat instances out there running gnome or whatever because reasons.
Personally I wouldn't do it unless some hard necessity were there because it's just another thing that could go wrong, another thing to maintain if you're capturing your config as code, and mostly because I'm not gonna dedicate a keyboard/monitor for that kind of stuff.
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It's how we do.
I use both, the only other distros I've used are Raspberry Pi OS and Raspbian. What am I missing out on? Ubuntu desktop seems fine to me, I'm hoping to transition all my machines to Ubuntu desktop before windows 10 EoL. Unfortunately I still have to keep a windows machine around, there are multiple pieces of software I need for work that are windows only.
Please don't kill me I'm just a noob who doesn't know any better.
Ubuntu is fine if you install Flatpak and replace the Ubuntu Software Center with the Gnome Software Center, but that is not something that is obvious or even easy for a newcomer, so in that regard, it is atrocious.
I use Ubuntu a lot and can say I've never used the Ubuntu software center. I'm old enough that I still accidentally type apt-get instead of apt though.
I think it’s what they renamed the Snap Store to. Or I’m misremembering. But uninstall whatever app store comes on Ubuntu and install the Gnome one.
Old software (compared to leading or bleeding edge distros), Canonical (the company owning ubuntu) has many controversies surrounding it, snaps (sandbox packaging mode) are problematic in multiple regards etc…
Try fedora before switching entirely to ubuntu. It’s still owned by a company (itself owned by IBM), however it is (at least a bit) better than canonical.
I use Server for my Pi-Hole running on an old NUC.
My endpoints run either Mint or Manjaro.