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I don't see a lot of production workloads running debian unless it's a Ubuntu which is backed by canonical.

Considering that Ubuntu is a superset of Debian, then yes you do see lots of debian production workloads

Personally, I used to support a $25m/yr business on a cluster of Debian servers, which itself supported about 1000 remote field installations, also running Debian.

Let me tell you, Debian was the least of my troubles in that job. It really did just work

I wish I could use Debian at work, I run it at home on the same server for 8+ years through multiple full version upgrades with very little hassle or trouble. With RedHat I'm fighting satellite server and subscription nonsense and have to rebuild from scratch to upgrade, I've never understood that requirement.

I see you've been downvoted, but this statement is true. Ubuntu on both servers and desktop is far more popular than debian. Popular is not always a good proxy for better, but in this case following a well tread path is advantageous when you run into trouble.

Is there anything Ubuntu-specific in Ubuntu these days (other than process stuff, like release cycle)? Or is it just Debian with commercial support and branding?

I know you mean in terms of host OS, but as an aside, loads of Docker images are based on the "slim" Debian images.

Google's production servers run a customised version of Debian https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/technical-sessions/...

Also desktops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLinux

I usually choose debian for docker images if alpine isn't the right solution. Their slim images are pretty nice.

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