We performed a comparison between Flatcar Container Linux and Ubuntu Linux based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Canonical, Oracle and others in Operating Systems (OS) for Business."Flatcar's support is good. The version I am using is stable and allows us to make needed changes."
"I find the Linux community very valuable and the fact it is open source. So it's free and I use it without any problems."
"The security is very good."
"The solution is free to use and open-source."
"The solution is stable, fast and free."
"There are many features I like about this solution, but one that stands out, is that it allows me to easily install new packages and to have recent packages available."
"The solution is scalable."
"Ubuntu is rather stable, simple to deploy, stable, and well supported by an open-source community."
"It is a widely used and stable solution. Community members can offer support and technical guidance."
"The development teams could sharpen their skills. They should offer applications on the net."
"They can improve the interface and give it an appearance similar to the Windows 11 operating system."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"Sometimes certain tasks are challenging due to issues with the command-line interface. Users who prefer Windows may find it difficult to transition to Linux."
"The solution is not user-friendly in comparison with Windows."
"The product must enable automation using AI."
"The encryption of the partition regarding software systems could be improved."
"It can be improved in terms of user-friendliness for inexperienced users. It also has a lot of scope for improvement in terms of deployment. It is kind of hard for inexperienced users, and the learning curve is very steep. There is not really good documentation for new professionals. Even we are using network servers to install it."
"We don't have any support, so we search for answers online. However, it can sometimes be a little messy to find the information if you have a highly specific question or a strange problem. It would be nice if finding information were a little simpler. Maybe they could have some portal that could point you to where you can find information."
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Flatcar Container Linux is ranked 14th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business while Ubuntu Linux is ranked 2nd in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 133 reviews. Flatcar Container Linux is rated 8.0, while Ubuntu Linux is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Flatcar Container Linux writes "The solution is stable and allows us to make needed changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubuntu Linux writes "A stable and free solution that is easy to deploy and has a user-friendly GUI". Flatcar Container Linux is most compared with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Amazon FreeRTOS, whereas Ubuntu Linux is most compared with Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows Server and Windows 11.
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