Switch to /etc/os-release for detecting versions#1
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This make break downstream use right now
The standard way to detect which system you're running on is to use /etc/os-release
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/os-release.html
It is just an "environment" file, and defines many useful variables. It also has a concept of "variants" using the ID_LIKE variable, something the current implementation "hard codes"
Here's a big collection of release files for reference:
https://github.com/chef/os_release