We compared Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL and Ubuntu Linux based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Ubuntu Linux seems to be the slightly superior solution because it is easier to use and cheaper to purchase.
"The product is optimized for resource utilization."
"It's been great since we have it. It's been reliable and fast."
"It is the most lightweight platform to use. It is very flexible. It is not very difficult to manage, configure, and deal with."
"The technical support is very helpful."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable attribute is its stability."
"Red Hat support is pretty good. They're online, so you can look up things once you have support. Their AB integration has improved. It's easy to manage storage for moving, syncing LBM, etc."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable features are ease of support and the ability to run a read-only course on the operating system."
"The most valuable features are that it's free and that it is simple to use."
"Stable and scalable Linux operating system that can test and run virtual machines."
"The integration with other applications, like Chrome or Firefox, works excellent for users navigating and test browsing."
"The feature that I most like in Ubuntu is that it is really easy to use. Ubuntu is very easy to use and comes with many available packages. I think that Ubuntu is a good solution for the small business or a small lab."
"The solution is flexible and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Ubuntu Linux is the price because we don't need to pay as it is used for selling equipment."
"Ubuntu is great because you get most of the packages or software you need. You get the latest updates and stuff fairly fast."
"Since Ubuntu is freely available for download and use, there is virtually no investment required, resulting in a high ROI."
"It would be great to have an overview of how various Red Hat products work together. They can show how to tie all those pieces together and how to have the products that we work together for our day-to-day processes."
"The graphical user interface should be more user-friendly. It's a concern because the command line is perfectly fine."
"There should be more upgrades to the security features."
"The high cost of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has room for improvement."
"Upgrading between versions needs to be easier."
"The upgrade procedures are a little bit cumbersome. It would be nice if they are not because every three or four years we have to update, and I find that to be a bit on the cumbersome side. We have been able to automate most of it, but we still run into things where the job does not finish. There are things that require additional steps. There are things that need to be removed and that always require manual intervention."
"It is constantly improving. It is important to continue to improve."
"The performance component is available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but we need to maintain the dashboard on-premises, which requires us to switch between systems instead of performing all tasks from a single location."
"Ubuntu Linux could improve by having more out-of-the-box functionality for common plug-and-play devices, such as printers. It's sometimes more difficult to plug-and-play printers with Ubuntu Linux. You need to work a bit and make some drivers work. They need to work a bit on plug-and-play devices."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"Ease of use and ease of deployment could still be improved in this system."
"They can improve the interface and give it an appearance similar to the Windows 11 operating system."
"The biggest improvement, which is also applicable to Linux in general, with Ubuntu Linux is getting things standardized as to where you're going to put your configuration files and how they're going to work. Package names also need to be improved so that the package name doesn't have any match with configuration file systems and things like that. Ubuntu is still better than some of the others, such as Red Hat Linux or CentOS."
"The solution could be more user-friendly, as I use Mac on a day to day basis."
"The solution is a little complicated to customize and could be made easier."
"Ubuntu is putting great efforts into making their platform a great hosting platform for Kubernetes and other related tools, but they are not addressing the challenges with what it takes to run Ubuntu in a large Windows-based environment."
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 179 reviews while Ubuntu Linux is ranked 2nd in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 134 reviews. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8, while Ubuntu Linux is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubuntu Linux writes "A stable and free solution that is easy to deploy and has a user-friendly GUI". Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows 10, Oracle Linux and CentOS, whereas Ubuntu Linux is most compared with Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows Server and CentOS. See our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) vs. Ubuntu Linux report.
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