• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Ubuntu isn’t a good choice, since Canonical is essentially the Microsoft of the Linux world. Suse makes sense, though. NixOS would be good, too, since you could scale your deployments.

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      13 hours ago

      NixOS is great, but has a steep learning curve which doesn’t make it suitable for such a project imo

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        13 hours ago

        I think it makes great sense to use Nix (or better Guix). The users are not expected to do any configurations. They basically need a browser and maybe a text editor if it’s the public sector.

        Also, you can run Nix or Guix on basically any other dist. Which is very helpful for reproducible deployments.

        Ubuntu doesn’t make any sense. Better use Debian in that case. We don’t need to give yet another eccentric South African billionaire more power.

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          12 hours ago

          Actually, what we probably want is something like openSUSE MicroOS with containers based on Nix or Guix.

          Best would be if openSUSE simply adopted Nix/Guix for container configuration.