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

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 08 Dec 2024 11:31:42 +0100 bo.berglund at gmail.com <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 08 Dec 2024 09:14:09 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> And I immediately ran into problems since there are so manu NUC models...
> When I look at the ASUS NUC 13 i7 Pro on ASUS website to check compatibility it
> lists the following supported operating systems:
> 
> NUC14
>     Windows 11 64bit
>     Ubuntu 23.10
>     Ubuntu 24.04lts
>     Red Hat Enterprise 9.3
>     
> NUC13
>     Windows 11, 64-bit*
>     RedHat Enterprise Linux 9.2
>     Ubuntu 22.04
> 
> Strange, will it not run Debian then?

It is like getting a listing of supported jean brands for your 16-year old 
teenage boy: if one included not only name brands (Levi, Wrangler), but all of 
the store brands, and all of the knock off brands (past and future), you could 
publish a 30-page booklet.  But jeans are jeans.

Linux is Linux.  ASUS is gearing the web content to commercial 
customers who will be opting for paying Red Hat or Canonical for a service 
contract.  It is only odd that they didn't bother to list Suse.

Also, I suspect that ASUS probably only bothered to test things with RedHat
and Ubuntu, but they probably have limited resources and did not want to spend
time (money) to try *every* distro listed in distro watch and they don't want
to be caught with their pants down by listing some random [hobby] distro that
might have issues. Note: if Ubuntu works, Debian works by inference, since
Ubuntu is just Debian dressed up a bit -- all of the core [server] bits are
straight out of Debian's distro, but repackaged and possibly re-branded in a
few cases.

The reality is that if one distro works, virtually any other distro will also
work. *Some* distros might have issues with some hardware -- at this point the
"tricky" hardware is going to things like WiFi (a non-issue for a hard-wired
server) and maybe video (again a non-issue) and what sorts of third party
[server app] software is available in the distro's repo (a non-issue with
Debian).


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