[blorgle]

I grew up using Debian and later Ubuntu, longer than 10 years on those distros as a kid and into my career as a sysadmin/operations person. Ubuntu LTS was my main workhorse form about 10.04 through to ~14.04.3.

Late 2015 I decided I wanted a "Chromebook" style user experience where I could have a repeatable build of the base OS that could be thrown away plus a backup system based around duplicity to restore my homedir. I had used preseed to deploy large fleets of Ubuntu boxes at work so it was a natural option. But I decided a few things: Firstly, I was sick of LTS 3.x kernel. Secondly, if 16.04 and all other distros were adopting systemd I may as well go to the source and use a RH based distro. Finally, that preseed wasn't as good as Kickstart used in RH based distros.

So I came up with https://github.com/sinner-/kickstart-fedora-workstation to provide repeatable builds of Fedora the way that I like it. I've been happily using it since then (across 2 versions of Fedora and a hard drive failure)! The .ks file will be updated for F26 this weekend as it just went GA today.

[HeadlessChild]

Have you looked into the FAI (https://fai-project.org) project? It's like preseed on steroids and very similar to the Kickstart project.