Migrating from 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04 on headless Ubuntu server?? + hardware upgrade

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 08 Dec 2024 09:14:09 +0100 Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sat,  7 Dec 2024 20:20:10 -0500 (EST), Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >> What should I choose? Probably Debian since I am used to Ubuntu server command
> >> line?
> >
> >Yes.  Using Ubuntu as a server is somewhat silly.  If you are not going to 
> >install any desktop environment and only use the "black console" or ssh, then 
> >plain Debian is probably the best choise.
> >
> 
> Robert,
> thank you very much for your 2 posts - very helpful!
> 
> I will now go buy the ASUS NUC box and install Debian from scratch, since Debian
> is what both Ubuntu and PI-OS are based on and those are the only Linuxes I have
> used.
> I also have 2 Linux Mint's but that I believe is based on Ubuntu...
> 
> I have a lot of RPi devices around and I find that they do not differ that much
> from Ubuntu (server) so I believe Debian will be the best choice.
> 
> All of my Linux devices are headless and if there is a Desktop access it is only
> by way of VNC (RPi and the Linux Mint with MATE desktop)..

For what its worth, I use a RPi5 as my main desktop system.  I also have a 
RPi4 on my workbench as well.  I just use SSH Tunneling for the other machines 
and don't use VNC at all.

> 
> 

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