Arch for everything from a Raspberry Pi to a Workstation. Never anything Ubuntu with their propitiatory SNAP package management- that is vendor black box lock in.

@John Lohman yes but the suspicion is always there, and lost trust is hard to regain. You can rightly say Canonical hasn’t done anything **yet**, but that is what everyone thought about Microsoft. Any `open source` that defaults you into a proprietary package manager from install is suspicious <tin foil hat application />

Kubernetes is using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut. Use Docker on Btrfs with Snapper installed. Timeshift for “old style” backups, but snapper is what “Windows Snapshot/recovery points” was supposed to be but never was.

Kubernetes is appropriate for the enterprise where you have hundreds or thousands of users to manage. Docker is far superior for everything from the home lab to a SME, a great open source piece of software to spin up docker contains over your network and manage them in one place is called “Containers”. I can get the GitHub link if anyone is interested, I run it on a Raspberry Pi with lots of containers going and it has negligible overhead and a cool easy to use web interface so cross platform or distribution is not an issue. I see a earlier comment “Docker Swarm” I will have to check it out - wouldn’t it be ironic if that is what my “Containers” that I use is actually called now / or always was. Seriously if that low friction you just get it running and it works, right down to the YAML up to the single click to as a Docker container on the machine your browsing from. 👍

Just shows you get used to the interface not the name: It is called **Arcane** a breeze to install and the guide is step by step. 100% free and tweaked for ARM usage for us Pi lovers.