Happy Thanksgiving! (Although not a holiday here.)
Might differ based on requirements put in. But, yes, a compilation of more founded research, calculations, … would be nice.
It is one of the options on: https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-node/#obtaining-cardano-node
https://developers.cardano.org/docs/get-started/cardano-node/installing-cardano-node mentions it at the very top:
But, yes, it could be much clearer that that is a “You can ignore this whole page and just download.” alternative.
https://cardano-community.github.io/guild-operators/Build/node-cli/ on the other hand is very explicit:
For what it’s worth: I am not an SPO, do not want to run a pool, but I need a node sometimes to play around and develop and for that purpose I have written this last year:
Tried to be more bare-bones, get as much as possible directly from the source and just describe my ideas how to organise it. With a bit of Linux knowledge, I hope it is easy to adapt to other peoples’ likings, just take the “one systemd unit for testnets and mainnets” idea or just the symlinks from directory in $PATH to unpacked binary distributions idea or just the information where to find the latest configuration, topology, and genesis files.