”Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, Alma” are all the same distro group: Enterprise Linux (EL). That it's ”available” on other distros is irrelevant, almost anything is ”available” as a non standard choice for any distro.

Sure, if you're using dracut, which is not true for "Linux" in general.

It's not only more complicated, it also does not sound to me like it would scale. What do you do when you have N servers? Do you buy N raspis, or do you keep using one bastion host? How do you automate it when you sooner or later must (re-)deploy?

If you set this up once ("this" meaning adding networking, SSH and tailscale inside initramfs), you can just do the same thing for the next server you set up, and you don't have to worry about the failure of one node affecting the other(s).

Calling Ars Technica "woke far left" is crazy, the U.S. really is lost to complete fractionalist brainrot.

Why would you solve an issue like this and then not supply a patch upstream, or at the very least contact someone that could? It seems to be like the FLOSS equivalent of posting about a problem on a forum and then replying "nvm, solved it".