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I've been on Ubuntu exclusively for at least 4 years now. Kicked Microsoft out of my house. I do have a Windows 10 VM that I use for my amateur radio logging software, JT-65 and FT8 comms as well as control plane software for my ham radio gear.

My work issued laptop is Windows 10. Hate it. Hate everything about it. I'd designed and engineered a Cloud VPN solution using Microsoft Azure and included Active Directory w/Ubuntu integration. So I can login to our brand spanking new Azure Cloud VPN implementation using my own Ubuntu desktop, authenticate with Active Direcotory and 2FA and do my work now. I use Outlook Web Access for email, O365 Web Based for work and when I have to create engineering diagrams I use Draw.IO

I'd like to send my work laptop back but they won't let me. LOL!

I agree that Ubuntu is the best supported and most reliable version available, I don't think I care that I'm not always on the latest and greatest Kernel. I'm ok being -1 on the Kernel and am willing to sacrifice for stability.

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I've been wanting to get Ubuntu onto. It's sitting within arms reach as I type, I'll probably get to that this week ... then I've been saying that for about a year or so now, so time to do it.

Very cool! Everything that you can do on an old computer running Linux, can be done in a Cloud provider like Amazon. You can create your own VPN (as you have done), email server, etc. and I think that it is cheap or not that expensive depending on the amount of resources that you need.

I still like having a server running on a local machine since I control it versus some mega company who may decide to shut it down.

Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi... Everything seemed to install okay then when I tried to do a Dovecot update it failed. I didn't have time to debug it and ran out of time. I believe that it is still very new so maybe in a few months it will work. Also, the RP hardware is not the most stable -- the micro SD card. Plus the SD card has to be formatted for FAT32. Not really a problem I guess and there are work arounds. I wonder if they make a version with the flash memory soldered to the board? Anyway, the Raspberry Pi is probably more suited for the hobbyist but the possibility of being able to install a fully functional OS on a small device like it is pretty cool.