The worst part about “simple” is defining what that means for the person. Depending on what they mean, there are a lot of different answers.
(And a good chunk of those are just Debian with different branding).
As others have said, EndeavourOS is pretty damn easy too. Personally I’ll stick to Arch for desktop, deb stable for servers/lxc’s, and deb sid for mostly screwing around and sending some reports in so stable can be stable.
I’m more of an LXC kind of guy, but I get the switch. I don’t do much docker these days, outside of a few work scenarios outside of my control.
Personally I don’t like RH under IBM, so I won’t go with fedora either. Fantastic community, bad business behind it (a story as old as time).
Its one of the reasons I appreciate Debian as much as I do, and contribute with Sid as often as I can, mostly using sid as a mirror of what I’m doing on my Deb stable boxes and finding breaks.
I don’t have a really good reason not to use LXCs right now. I use VMs because that’s what I knew when I started with Proxmox and the Internet seems pretty divided on when each one shines over the other. The goal of my switch to podman was twofold: switch to rootless and use something with better systemd support. I was hacking together unit files for docker using some pretty dumb tricks, none of that is necessary with quadlets though.
What’s the benefit in your eyes for LXC over VM? I don’t run Windows or anything so using the host kernel isn’t an issue for me. I do sometime have problems with OOM kills taking out a VM though, but my understanding is if it were an LXC that kill could have hit a much more important process than my general apps VM.
E: As far as Fedora under IBM… I don’t like it either. I’m relatively prepared to jump back to Debian though, I’ve kept my Andi key playbooks updated for both Fedora and Debian just in case I have to go back.
The worst part about “simple” is defining what that means for the person. Depending on what they mean, there are a lot of different answers.
(And a good chunk of those are just Debian with different branding).
As others have said, EndeavourOS is pretty damn easy too. Personally I’ll stick to Arch for desktop, deb stable for servers/lxc’s, and deb sid for mostly screwing around and sending some reports in so stable can be stable.
This is what I eventually settled on too. Switched servers to Fedora last year though as part of switching from docker to podman.
I’m more of an LXC kind of guy, but I get the switch. I don’t do much docker these days, outside of a few work scenarios outside of my control.
Personally I don’t like RH under IBM, so I won’t go with fedora either. Fantastic community, bad business behind it (a story as old as time).
Its one of the reasons I appreciate Debian as much as I do, and contribute with Sid as often as I can, mostly using sid as a mirror of what I’m doing on my Deb stable boxes and finding breaks.
I don’t have a really good reason not to use LXCs right now. I use VMs because that’s what I knew when I started with Proxmox and the Internet seems pretty divided on when each one shines over the other. The goal of my switch to podman was twofold: switch to rootless and use something with better systemd support. I was hacking together unit files for docker using some pretty dumb tricks, none of that is necessary with quadlets though.
What’s the benefit in your eyes for LXC over VM? I don’t run Windows or anything so using the host kernel isn’t an issue for me. I do sometime have problems with OOM kills taking out a VM though, but my understanding is if it were an LXC that kill could have hit a much more important process than my general apps VM.
E: As far as Fedora under IBM… I don’t like it either. I’m relatively prepared to jump back to Debian though, I’ve kept my Andi key playbooks updated for both Fedora and Debian just in case I have to go back.