I too would be interested in the answer. From my perspective, Debian is the server Linux distro <i>par excellence</i>, and in my experience the folks who choose Ubuntu have been devs who don&#x27;t actually use Linux (e.g., the sorts who develop on a Mac or in a VM rather than on a personal Linux system).  It&#x27;s not really fair to Ubuntu, which is decent enough in its own way, but I tend to consider the choice of Ubuntu to be a bit of an architecture smell.<p>I&#x27;m honestly interested in what the valid reasons to prefer Ubuntu over Debian (particularly on the server side) are.