Bhante Subharo ☸️<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://theres.life/@TMakarios" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TMakarios</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hear-me.social/@maple" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>maple</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mastodonmigration</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@snikket_im" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>snikket_im</span></a></span> I consider Docker to be sort of like a shoddily-designed Operating System unto itself. It has its own ecosystem of where the containers come from, its own little world of management tools (I especially dislike <a href="https://c.im/tags/YAML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YAML</span></a> in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a> compose), its own security considerations, its own ins and outs, and its own sensitivities and gotchas. One server Operating System is all I want to have to learn: that of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a>.</p><p>*I no longer like any sort of situation which I call "an Operating System within an Operating System"*. For example, I also don't like VMs: no VMware, no Virtualbox, no QEMU, no Redhat VMM, no Cockpit, etc. No guest additions that break across upgrades, etc. Been there, done that.</p><p>Raspberry Pis are so easily affordable, and easy to flash a new OS with Raspberry Pi Imager. Imager "pre-configuring" a newly-imaged install with a user account, an SSH server, etc? Brilliant. And there are so many great, inexpensive boot/storage options (MicroSD card, fast USB stick, SSDs, NVMes, etc). Flashing an Image *directly from the BIOS*? Highly underrated. These install media are all easy to back up and restore in bulk with zstd. raspi-config is so awesome for all the convenient things it makes available. All these innovations, taken together: that's the much-easier way I like doing it now. This ecosystem *for its ease of maintainability* beats all the above, hands down. </p><p>All my thinking follows from the self-respect and emotional well-being I afford myself through insisting on (allow me to repeat once again) *ease of long-term maintenance*. This includes backups, restores, roll-backs, etc.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a></p>