LavaStain

About five years into my career, I pivoted into a consulting position at a tech company. Still was coding often but the role was more about instructing and tutoring customers on best practices, methodologies, and newer tech like containers. Did that for a few years. Then a few months ago I realized that, while I enjoy coding, I was more passionate about the human interaction and teaching. Now soon I'll be starting a sales engineer role selling, and teaching, a cool product and making more money than I would have as a developer.

I don't disagree with anything you said, but my take on their lock-in argument is they're saying that once you install RHEL, and pay for the support from Red Hat, you are stuck with it. It is very easy to stop paying for support and attach your existing RHEL servers to other repos. That's what the use case of Liberty Linux seems to be: stop paying RH, keep your existing RHEL servers, pay us instead. It really can be that easy hence my argument that there isn't lock-in. But frankly the only reason we're having this discussion is because SUSE's marketing and description for this product is way too vague and possibly misleading.

But is this actually a new distro? Take a look at their product page: https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/ Besides the name, it reads like a support offering paired with patching/automation tooling. Also, doesn't this offering prove there isn't vendor lock-in? Sounds like marketing FUD.

What is it like using Clubhouse?