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I use it for my development work VM. Every EC2 I have ever spun up at work is a Ubuntu Server. It is extremely prevalent.

I have used and still using ubuntu servers.

Literally dozens.

Debian rules!

Got a physical Ubuntu server for my Plex and a Ubuntu server VM for docker.

I use it!

Yes, especially for containers, as you guessed. (Debian, in my case)

I have an Ubuntu VM on Scale because I needed another IP address so that I could route it through Wireguard via OPNsense.

Ubuntu with Docker containers is super solid. I started with desktop and realized I never used the GUI, switched it over and never looked back. Especially with Kasm.

Ubuntu server seems silly when Debian exists.

I'm in the process of configuring a NAS that's using Ubuntu Server. I'm even contemplating not using ZFS but MD Raid and dm-integrity with dm-crypt.

I run ubuntu server on my modest little server. It indeed runs a bunch of docker containers. I just didn't see the need to go full proxmox on it.

Used to use Ubuntu Server on my VMs, but recently switched over to Debian 12 command line installs. No specific reason as to why I did, but it does feel like they start a lot faster now

Ubuntu is the only Linux software I use. Other than unraid

I do... well, xubuntu but I rarely ever use the gui. it's only there if I need it and lately it barely works so yay. I primarily access it over ssh anyway and manage everything in docker.

I do have a proxmox box though. didn't care for truenas. the proxmox box just runs nextcloud and syncthing in their own containers.

Proxmox with a bunch of ubuntu servers, plus a cloud init! All of them run docker, terraform, ansible, pi-hole, etc.

I do. Multiple. For scaling practice to 100 ip VPN farm. Scraping. Nas. List goes on.

I'm running ESXi, but everything that I can run in Linux I do... I happen to really enjoy the simplicity and ease of use as Ubuntu Server offers me. I haven't found that in any other server environment for my uses, purposes, and lack of desire to try new things as I get older.

For me, basically everything works in Ubuntu Server and the new versions are stupid easy to upgrade to or restore setups to. So currently I've got like... 10 Ubuntu server vms going. The other like.. 3 are 2 windows server and 1 OPNSense.

Debian shop here.

Use the right tool for the job. If I need a hypervisor, I'll use Proxmox (or Hyper-V at work :( ). If I need a server, I'll use Ubuntu (software allowing). If I have a Linux workstation I'll use Mint usually.

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

PiHole and Tailscale exit nodes in Scaleway

I've used it plenty in production. Not so much in my home lab.

I run it on my Linode VPSes, because its just the easiest low-friction way to have something that's well maintained, easy to regularly update, and easy to install modern stuff on.

It's quite common.

I use Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS headless on bare metal on my Nuc 11 essential I got for 140 bucks. Use it for php/python scripts/cron jobs, puppeteer scripts, MySQL server, exim4 setup as a mail relay so my box can send me email notifications from my scripts and apache as a www server only used by me. I use it cuz Debian the packages are usually older and Ubuntu is the most popular so super easy to google shit I don’t know plus from what I understand Ubuntu server is more user friendly than Debian and easier to install.

I’m sure I could set up proxmox or use Ubuntu in a VM, etc but this works for me and does all the stuff I need and is stable as hell. I have it running 24/7 and never had a single crash or anything. Also I’m not the most advanced Linux user and I know how to do it all easily this way so dunno why I need to complicate it.

Quite a bit. It works well and is the base for several appliance images that I use.

Since CentOS pretty much ruined their product a good number of them have moved over (already seen a few of them in the comments lol). Glad I never got much into CentOS. Debian based distros is where it is at!!!!!!!11

I run Ubuntu natively, no VMs. I used to do it with ESXi but I've lost my server.

Running it as a docker host here. I wanted something Debian based because I'm already familiar with the package tools and such for that family. I'm sure there are other distros I could choose that would all be better in some way, but Ubuntu Server was a pretty convenient ready-to-go package for a headless server build.

20 Ubuntu VMs as we speak, however 10 RHEL based VMs and 1 openSUSE VM thrown in the mix.

I use a Ubuntu VM to run some older Docker containers (from when I was first learning). I'd migrate them over but I just don't care enough to migrate them. They're just Minecraft and game proxy servers.

Most of my servers are Ubuntu.

I use it with for my containers. Portainer to manage the containers and the Docker volumes are located on a zfs dataset that replicates to my truenas server. Works great.

I do. A lot of people running it don’t need to post with basic questions.

Throwing in a vote of confidence for Rocky Linux, basically CentOS/RedHat with good along term support. I have that supplemental to an Ubuntu Server instance, did it as a test to run services from docker containers and never looked back.

I used to until the Shuttleworth "erm, we have root" gaffe, at which point I realized there is so little separating Ubuntu from pure Debian that it's not even remotely worth putting up with the billionaire vanity project bullshit.

I am running Immich on Ubuntu server VM, works great

Me

On arm64 as well!

Ubuntu is usually my go-to Linux for servers

U know it’s much easier if you’re using TrueNAS system as a file sharing server instead of Ubuntu doing that complex SMB server setup

It used to be my go-to, until the unity desktop and snap...

I found both annoying so I left.

Years ago, for a few years.

What I disliked most was distribution upgrade.

Ubuntu pacakages using non bleeding edge parts

Using repositories.

Now I use Arch Linux on all including the Server, Arcade, etc. It's superior for so many reasons.

It's funny to throw proxmox and true nas in comparison because that's like comparing cars to wheels. Basically all those proxmox installs are probably running various Ubuntu VMS

I started with it now use Proxmox with a few Ubuntu Server LXC.

I use it often when I want linux with a gui. There may be better distributions for specific tasks, but ubuntu is easy to install, upgrade, and use. It surely beats the old days of running make menuconfig and make install.

For headless/containers I use alpine for the minimalist approach and just add what I need through a package manager unless I need something more custom.

I used to use Ubuntu bare metal with docker containers until I switched to unraid for my main/media server. I still use Ubuntu for my game servers as I use AMP to manage those.

I use Ubuntu server and run Docker containers because I found managing stuff as a Linux box via SSH more comfortable. My previous server was FreeNAS for years, it was fine, I'm just more familiar with bash terminal than the terminology soup of FreeNAS + BSD.

Debian VM.

I’ve got Ubuntu running as a few VMs

I run Ubuntu server vm’s on esxi. Let me know if you have questions or whatever.