Decisions — Fedora to Pop!_OS

Choices worth recording because the reasoning is not recoverable from the code alone. A false default with no note beside it looks like an oversight six months later.

Each of these came out of measuring the old machine rather than from preference.

• Podman over Docker — default runtime, and why Docker is opt-in.
• No host CUDA toolkit — the 21 GB that argued for containers.
• One NVIDIA driver source — two repos, one driver, undefined winner.
• The three-layer split — root, $HOME, and project scope.

Related

• KB index — parent: full registry.
• b08x.workstation layout — supports: where these decisions land in code.