As far as I am concerned, the cloud sucks and will suck more over time. Makes no difference in whether it runs of WinDoz or Linux.
I recently switched from Xubuntu to Debian (XFCE) on this machine. Very please with the new install, only issue was detecting the on board sound card. Boots much faster than Xubuntu did, but that may be the issue with detecting the sound card.
Agreed. I can't understand why people place so little value on control of their servers that they are willing to grant control to others.