They're similar but not the same. Is your priority stability or ease of use? I recommend only one of these distributions to new Linux users. Ubuntu is based on Debian, and hundreds of distributions ...

A Linux distribution -- often shortened to Linux distro-- is a complete operating system based on Linux. It is packaged with other components and software to make it fully usable out of the box.

I often get asked why Ubuntu-based distributions have been my go-to for years. Here's what keeps me coming back. It was October 2004, and I’d been using Red Hat Linux (way before it became Fedora) for ...