[mtlynch]

>* BTW, to be honest, I was somewhat surprised that you used Ansible instead of packages, it seems that this caused you a giant overhead for support.*

Why didn't you tell me three years ago?!? : )

Yeah, Ansible was a huge mistake.[0] I knew it wasn't the right tool for distribution, but starting out, I just stuck with the tools I knew. We finally purged it in our last release and moved everything to standard Debian packages.

I'm glad to hear that PiKVM's stragegy has been working. I know our two projects are often pitted against each other, but I think there's ton of space for both of us to win back market share from the huge enterprise players and their consistently weak KVM offerings.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-5/#ansible-and-git-ar...

[mdevaev]

> Why didn't you tell me three years ago

You didn't ask :P

> Yeah, Ansible was a huge mistake.

I have some experience operating large clusters and distributing software, and these damn things like Ansible have never led us to anything good. So either packages or the whole chroot (docker, whatever).

In fact, I'm a fan of the good old time-tested solutions. You know, Makefiles, packages, maximum integration with native OS tools. A lot can be done with simple tools, and although the start will be difficult, the support will be simple.

> there's ton of space for both of us to win back market share from the huge enterprise players

Ofc. In addition, users clearly benefit from competition.