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I mean, LTS kernels exist. Some of the most popular Linux Distros in the enterprise should be considered legacy.

You need to own it. You need to protect it. You need to maintain it. You need to document it.

I was going to say things. Situational awareness is very much lacking, especially in certain parts of the world.

• Filling up my pantry with shelf stable/dry goods.
• New stock of seeds for the next couple years.
• grains and seeds for chicken feed

Yes two drives is much better than using the same drive to dual boot. However be aware that windows update will at some point break the Linux install even if installed on a second drive. There’s a few steps you can take to avoid this like making sure the boot partition and booy manager ate both on the Linux only drive but Microsoft messing something up is an inevitability.

If on a laptop with only one drive, you could boot to a USB drive or USB external enclosure for an SSD.

Ideally, you should back up all data to an external drive which is only plugged in during backups (unplug when installing another os). I would even recommend windows users booting into clonezilla and cloning their windows drive as it is really easy to overwrite or format the wrong drive.

I would say that if you are going to host it at home then kubenetes is more complex. Bare metal kubernetes control plane management has some pitfalls. But if you were to use a cloud provider like linode or digital ocean and use their kubernetes service, then only real extra complexity is learning how to manage Kubernetes which is minimal.

There is a decent hardware investment needed to run kubernetes if you want it to be fully HA (which I would argue means it needs to be a minimum of 2 clusters of 3 nodes each on different continents) but you could run a single node cluster with autoscaling at a cloud provider if you don’t need HA. I will say it’s nice not to have to worry about a service failing periodically as it will just transfer to another node in a few seconds automatically.