But functionally, like you I find Ubuntu server fine. I run apt update and upgrade a couple times a year and its local only with tailscale access.

I find these immutable OS's really nice on laptop or desktop. The home directory is the only thing that can be written to so the OS is supposed to be more stable and can't break easily

I've long since thrown everything with a user count > 1 out.

> Can you please add wget, nano, $my_fav_app_omg_i_love_it to the root filesystem?

> No, not likely.

I am guessing the way to use software not already in the image is to use `docker run`.