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I think you're confusing this. Talos is kubernetes. It can only be as good or as bad as Kubernetes. This is different. A complete rethink of immutable infrastructure with a decade of additional hindsight. I switched from Talos to OKD. I honestly don't miss Talos, but would like to be done with k8s altogether.

IncusOS is amazing. Since K8s envelopes my day job, I rarely get to test out things like this. If cloud on-prem continues taking off the way it has in the last year, this sort of deployment will be ideal.

Also, I loathe Proxmox. With Proxmox, you are one bad upgrade away from disaster at every turn.

AI tools are the killer app driving Desktop Linux. Is anyone else still confused about this? It's been a few minutes since 2023.

They are called Chromebooks. It can sometimes be difficult for some people to find that toggle switch that enables Debian, but I can assure you, no arcane CLI commands are involved.

EDIT: Any Chromebook using a Panther Lake chip, or an upcoming Googlebook ARM, can get you there.

NixOS, IncusOS, FCOS Atomic. Completely agree. Immutable host. This is the way

Proxmox upgrades make K8s appealing, and that's not easily done.

I've been on Incus with my homelab for a few months now, and couldn't be happier. Maybe I should make a post about it, but I don't have much to report. My biggest maintenance outage was forgetting to set WakeOnPower in the BIOS.

Edit: And yes, all I want to do is run containers. Nothing fancy, Nginx Proxy Manager suffices for networking, and Linstor/DRBD handles disk. I wanted to remove hyperscaling complexity, but keep immutability, and so far, life is good.

Proxmox is merely Debian with some fancy curtains. I'm sort of fascinated by this social belief it is something more than that. Although I agree with your sentiment, I'd rather be on XCP-ng or IncusOS as the foundation for containers. I don't believe sacrificing immutability in the host is an improvement over k8s for stability and maintenance.

I could say the same about Atomic distros and reproducible builds. Nix no longer has an exclusivity here. I find Ansible w/ Alma 10 Atomic (there's an rpm-ostree driver, cargo, pipx, etc.) gets the job done with less tokens, and less cognitive load on my team, that already doesn't want to work on configuration. Does Ansible have perfection? No, but neither does posix. Papering over this bump with a perfect abstraction isn't as useful in our imperfect world.

All that being said, I'm glad people like you are pushing Nix forward. Competition here is a good thing.