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tomc1985

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

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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.

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