Reasons to Love Ubuntu
Its easy
lots of people think its a desktop os
lots of documentation
Reasons to dislike Ubuntu
It does not follow *NIX standardized methods
Its bleeding edge rather than tested stable
it only very recently adopted 10 year support cycle for its product line (LTS)
Even the most “Stable” versions contain long well documented bugs that require an “upgrade” to the next version of Ubuntu to “pray its fixed”
Upgrades while sometimes possible between versions are not supported and often break software
Telemetry & Bloatware - its loaded with both
Closed Source with a blatant middle finger to FOSS on several of their key technologies
Yes, I work with both, and not once I have seen anyone suggest putting a production server of anything on Ubuntu. RHEL / CENTOS is predominately used by the MIL, GOV and Industrial sectors running everything from robots to IoT sensors. I guess, being one of the many who has to support both, You can take a RHEL 5.0 image and upgrade it to 7.6 without breaking an application, where as try Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 12.04 and everything but the command line will break.
