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I just run Ubuntu Server with some docker containers. Does the job.

I have only two machines running windows. All others are Linux based (5 physical machines. More than 20 VMs hosted by these guys, most of them are Ubuntu server). Personally I don’t count docker as “machine” :)

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

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.

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

PiHole and Tailscale exit nodes in Scaleway

I use Ubuntu server on my RPi 4s to run little ARM64 VMs using iSCSI block devices. It has good virtualization support and is easy to run on a pi. I can live-migrate VMs between two Pi4 VM hypervisors to avoid downtime while apt-patching. Easy and cheap.

I use it for 5 of my company's servers

Ubuntu Server is my OS of choice for VM's. Got a number of the running PiVPN in cloud, as well as at home.

I use PiHole on some of those servers as well. Then I got a VPN Gateway running on Ubuntu Server, plus an additional one for Cloudflare WARP.

I do. And I'm surprised this is a question. I find the installation process a loooot smoother compared to Debian.

Ubuntu is considered one of the big distros (they have support subscriptions available that are very well received by enterprises) along with RHEL (and the clones) and SLES. If I had to guess I would say that there are more Ubuntu installations then there are SLES - but I have no idea if Ubuntu is more popular than RHEL. This is all based on guesswork though so take it with a grain of salt.

Techno Tim does! :D

Ubuntu Server was my default up until recently when I ran I into some compatibility issues with older hardware. Went back to Debian, my original distro of choice for servers and I'm now sat here wondering why I moved to Ubuntu Server in the first place 🤔

I run Ubuntu Server on 3 bare metal systems because I wanted it for Ubuntu's out of the box ZFS experience. I'm about to start testing Debian 12 as a replacement because I don't like the way Ubuntu is moving, but for now it's serving my needs well.

I have Ubuntu Server running in a VM, but it's primary use is for accessing from Windows XP or Windows 98 on my retro PCs, because Samba needs to be configured differently and is, apparently, less secure

using debian for mostly everything on my vms but I did use ubuntu before to host all my services

Im running it as a base OS on an R710

We run it a work, so I run it at home as a vm

Ubuntu just works. Centos has sort of gone downhill tbh.

I don’t want to say it’s the most popular Linux server distribution but it’s definitely up there. Lots of people and organisations are using it.

I use Ubuntu server with Docker. It works well on my scale. Mostly single disks as I don’t store critical stuff. Will look into ther options when I eventually start doing RAID.

I use AlphaLinux at work and Debian for personal projects.

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.

Most people are probably using Ubuntu server for their Linux VMs. As for me, I don’t need VMs. Everything I run is a container. I use Ubuntu Server with Docker on bare metal for everything. I don’t want to be locked into a NAS OS or a virtualization OS when I don’t need the advanced features of either.

I do on my PoweEdge to run Redis clusters. I’m a centos refugee

If I’m installing Linux these days it’s always Ubuntu unless I have a good reason to use something else.

Debian + K3S

All my VMs run Ubuntu server and the actual metal server itself runs Ubuntu.

I use Ubuntu Server for anything linux related, hosted on Hyper-V.

Currently hosting Nextcloud, my beta version of Emby, an Apache instance and MariaDB.

I run debian stable

VM only for docker when need access from outside.

Debian base.

I use Ubuntu server as my hypervisor

Latest version of VMware ESXi, a Windows Server 2022 and loads of Ubuntu Server guest servers with docker and various other services , it just works! I also have a couple of Unix guests too.

I run Ubuntu server on bare metal with docker

I'm rolling Ubuntu with docker. Still run some VMs for experiments via QEMU. My 1U server in my rack is running Server 2019 that has stuff I like to keep running as much as possible. The 2U on Ubuntu has been a bit of a pain in the ass to reboot. It often won't auto-import my ZFS pools on boot. Does it manually every time though.

No proxmox here...just Ubuntu Server & virtualization.

I do in a VM in Proxmox just for Plex

hw transcoding works oob and I didn't have time to make it work with Debian Stable.

I use Ubuntu server, it’s great and seems to just work with absolutely everything, is very reliable and it’s somewhat lightweight.

Going forward, when I need lightweight VM’s I am exploring using Alpine (not completely decided yet). But overall, Ubuntu Server is great!

I do!

My file server runs on Ubuntu core

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.

A lot?

I have it on two different servers at the moment

I have used and still using ubuntu servers.

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.