I think we have, as an industry, for a long time not seen the true value proposition of "Linux distributions". They do quite some boring and tedious security a

I think we have, as an industry, for a long time not seen the true value proposition of "Linux distributions". They do quite some boring and tedious security auditing, for example review setuid binaries to the point they drop from root into user privileges; and they backport security patches, so security updates are binary compatible drop in replacements. When a binary distribution is widely used, the beneift is shared bug fixing and hardening, the disadvantage is somewhat dated libraries. It's a model I understand. What I don't understand is this idea of bootstrapping infrastructure via curl https://..../setup.sh https://..../setup.sh && ./setup.sh, and the equivalent import of "modules", whatever you call them in your language of choice, straight from the web.