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."
"Of value is that the solution is stable, easy to use, has features that are easy to connect to other Linux systems and can be managed and administered."
"One of the most valuable features of Ubuntu Linux is how easy it is to manage. We have some monitoring solutions, so those applications are running on top of Ubuntu. So far, the applications are running in a way that's very stable, compared to other Linux versions and flavors. In terms of redundancy and the command line, it's very easy to manage."
"Ubuntu Linux is developer-oriented."
"The auto upgrade operating system feature."
"The solution is flexible and user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Ubuntu Linux is the reliability, the ease of package management, and the ease of upgrading from one version to the next."
"The integration with other solutions like Apache is valuable."
"The tools we are using for this project are compatible with this solution."
"The development teams could sharpen their skills. They should offer applications on the net."
"Ubuntu Linux could improve by having better documentation because sometimes their documentation is not very good."
"More security features are needed to protect the current file system to prevent attacks."
"Ubuntu Linux needs to improve its stability. I would like it to show the battery percentage at the screen top."
"Limited application support compared with Windows and MacOS."
"The solution's initial setup is complex, and its technical support is not very good."
"There is a large open-sourced community that is helpful. I had a lot of problems when starting out and there was plenty of assistance throughout the community. Since everyone is helping for free the support could be better."
"I would recommend they improve the network security, because it can be very difficult. I mentioned that when you upgrade Ubuntu, the network cut is always deactivated, so you have to restart the service to reactivate the network. It is important to improve this ability."
"The user interface must be more user-friendly for non-technicians."
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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 134 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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