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>I've probably had direct responsibility for managing fleets of roughly 50,000 linux hosts - never seen an immutable distro.

plus, given your wealth of experience, I'm more interested in what linux you run on your personal laptop




WSL2 + Ubuntu. It's either MacOS or Windows in BigCorp with all the Okta/Crowdstrike/... stuff they require - and I like the apt-get convenience.

Most of my time is in Tmux anyways. Over the last 15 years the client side has been one of MacOS, ArchLinux, Ubuntu, and now Windows/WSL2.

The real activity has shifted up to the orchestration and service discovery layers - nomad, k8s, consul, and whatever fleetmanagement/cluster management layers maintains the hosts (a lot of homebuilt + terraform + chef/argo-workflow in our world). It's been years since I was really that concerned about the linux host side of things - why care about "immutable" when the entire machine/image is ephemeral for < 1 week (or in some cases, <1 day) anyways?




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