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."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is stable."
"Ubuntu Linux is easy to start, and MicroK8s is easy to deploy. Plug into the back-end storage and networking is also easy. It is good to start with 3-4 nodes, but hard to scale. For production grades like 20 or 100 nodes, we go with the RedHat for on-premise."
"It's faster than Windows."
"There's ample documentation available for most features, and I find it straightforward to use."
"The feature that I most like in Ubuntu is that it is really easy to use. Ubuntu is very easy to use and comes with many available packages. I think that Ubuntu is a good solution for the small business or a small lab."
"The most valuable features are stability and updates. We are not using the interface, the interface of the OS, we are using it as the server. We actually sync it through SSH and we deploy our application, so we don't have access to do it. The updates are very helpful and the way they update their OS is very helpful."
"Ubuntu is very easy to use and you can manage it on your own."
"The development teams could sharpen their skills. They should offer applications on the net."
"People with a Windows background may not find the solution's user interface user-friendly."
"For a broken Ubuntu system, you must do a new installation. There is no existing repair option."
"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."
"They can improve the interface and give it an appearance similar to the Windows 11 operating system."
"An easier to configure firewall would be a good add-on."
"The only improvement I would suggest is to switching back to Aptitude. They switched a lot of the packages that used to be running in Aptitude to Snap. I don't find them as usable when they are in Snap. The most obvious instance of this is that it's caused me to have issues with Chrome. Starting Chrome took a couple of seconds before it was up and running, which wasn't pleasant. Back when it used to run packaging in Aptitude, I didn't have this problem. I know they're familiar with these issues because a lot of other people have experienced them too."
"The solution could be better integrated with Microsoft."
"I don't like the graphical interface in Ubuntu and it should be better."
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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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