As the title says, I wanted to hear what since other (more experience) self hosters think of Micro-OS.

  • Geronimo Wenja@agora.nop.chat
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    11 months ago

    I had a reasonably good time with it. I had issues with btrfs, which is why I moved off it and went to Fedora IoT for pretty much the same benefits.

    For me, btrfs caused multiple drive corruptions because of unexpected power offs, and I didn’t feel like trying to fix that on the fly - it might have been drives that were incompatible with CoW because of firmware “optimisations” that break if a write isn’t completed prior to power off.

    In general, outside of that, it was pretty solid. I didn’t find much use for the orchestration/setup tooling they include, and I found their documentation pretty sporadic unfortunately. Fedora IoT has the advantage of basically being silverblue, with rpm-ostree, so it’s easy to find people using it and discussing it.

  • hottari
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    11 months ago

    Host system doesn’t matter. Unless you are familiar with zypper and prefer how things work in SUSE, you are not going to be getting any benefits using MicroOS.

  • mmhmm
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    11 months ago

    I used aeon on my most recent build and can’t wait to use it again.

    Micro os is best when doing one thing. I’m using aeon to run containers.

    I was drawn to microOS because I am a shit sys admin. MicroOS updates nightly, snapshots itself and now that I have my core services set I don’t need to touch it. What is not to enjoy about that?