People use computers to accplish tasks. That requires running software on an OS, but nobody runs software or an OS just to sit & watch it exist. They run it to accomplish tasks.
Different distros mostly vary in how easy it is to accomplish various tasks. No one distro is the easiest for everything, so people make different choices depending on their needs.
Kubernetes adds a lot of complexity. In return, it allows various teams in your company to work mostly independently, so that your software stack can mirror your org chart better. It trades latency for scalability (adds network calls to things that could have been local function calls). If your “home lab” isn’t serving millions of users, you don’t need Kubernetes to run it.
That said, you might be using your home lab partly as practice for a job at a large company where the tradeoffs of Kubernetes make sense (or at least someone thought they made sense and started using it, which is more common). That means using it at home can provide valuable self training, since you can screw around and not take down the production cluster for anyone other than yourself.
No, they made an assertion, without statistics or raw data to back it up. How many replies do cross-posts get, compared to regular posts? What’s the mean? What’s the median? Does the distribution look Gaussian, and if so what’s the standard deviation.
Interesting. I’ve mostly seen communities overwhelmed with bot posts and 0 replies, but I haven’t taken any statistics.
If there’s more activity on Reddit then here, then Reddit repost bots make it feel like all the community action is happening on Reddit. They push people back to Reddit because that’s where all the new posts are coming from, so why engage here if the active discussion is already in progress over there?
I’dv deleted the default, it’s never come back.