**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon Mar 11 02:59:57 2019 Mar 11 11:09:41 Hello, when looking at ubuntu images for a raspberry pi 3 I found the Ubuntu Core build, which I don't particularly like (Ubuntu SSO??) and the preinstalled one. what does the "preinstalled" exactly mean? is it like the cloud images with the ubuntu user present? is it customizable with user-data? Mar 11 11:12:35 it means there is no installer and the image only works in one context by default ... you write it directly to SD card and can boot from it into the ready made system Mar 11 11:13:24 (all other ubuntu images are installer images, so they are not "pre"-installed) Mar 11 11:14:05 ok, makes sense, kinda like the AWS images Mar 11 11:14:05 I guess this also means no user-data by default Mar 11 11:14:22 there is a first-boot setup usually Mar 11 11:16:24 manual? Mar 11 11:17:52 and btw ... ubuntu core is simply designed to be more secure (being mainly used in IoT and industrial commercially) so it wont allow normal logins but only ssh login by ssh key ... to do that you need a central storage for the keys, this is the reason for SSO (apart from the fact that core uses snap packages, not debs and you need to log in to the snap store for this) Mar 11 11:20:01 I see Mar 11 11:29:31 still, they offer an alternative with deb packages which I like more... I'll try to see if cloud-init is feasible Mar 11 13:14:46 how accurate is this page > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi , in particular the Booting section? **** ENDING LOGGING AT Tue Mar 12 02:59:57 2019