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Have to use Windows for work (I've asked), the ads have been getting worse and worse on my work laptop. Today got a game ad notification... That's clearly too far, right? Like I have to clear notifications, so I have to see it

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[–] blkpws@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

For production environment, I would just pay for a Kubernetes cluster, so I don't even need to worry about the OS. It all depends, if you need a Debian (much better than Ubuntu yeah) then do it, but I normally prefer running it all under docker apps, so the OS only needs to be able to run docker. That's why I do CentOS Stream 8.