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Discussion on: Which is the best Linux server distro?

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Nicholas Saccente

I'm biased because we run Fedora in my house, but APT feels very unpredictable at times. I had Nagios set up on Centos 8 at work, and when I had to migrate it to Ubuntu 20, nothing worked!

I know it's a matter of opinion, but my servers run Centos 7 or RHEL, purely because of stability.

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Danny Kim

I second this. Stability & reliability are all I ask for servers. Also, I rarely do package update or package removal on my servers (I just spawn another server with updated dependencies), so I don't need too many package manager features. yum & dnf are not the most feature-rich or user-friendly package managers out there, but they surely get their jobs done.