@cocaine_owlbear I've done a pretty intensive trial of all the above and plenty more besides recently and concluded that if you want a server then #Alpine / #void / #freebsd are all fine choices.

If you need a desktop OS and you don't have time to endlessly futz and fiddle constantly then #Devuan is the best choice with #freebsd a strong contender if you have compatible hardware.

Incidentally there is a Spanish spin of #Devuan called #Vendefoul Linux which adds more desktops and innovates under the hood. I'm using the #Lxqt flavour of #Vendefoul as a daily driver happily.

I *really* wanted to use #void due to superior performance and fairly well populated repos but experienced unsolvable problems with graphics. Together with the minimal documentation and the IRC channel/forum fast to respond but with non solution I ran out of time and had to give up.

* I'm ignoring the current fad to politicise everything: #xlibre solves a problem and I could care less about the devs personal political/spiritual/preferred brand of coffee etc

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* **#Devuan** - Pro: Based on Debian, with access to basically everything (well, just about) made for Debian with few issues. CON: Also embracing xLibre. Like Debian, the packages tend to lag behind current. I don't get along well with APT.
* **#Void**: PRO - I know how runnit works, solid community, more up to date than Debian, less bleedy than Arch. CON: Has weird issues with my laptop's wireless card. Don't know if it would continue after install.
* **Any Given #BSD** - PRO: Super stability, would be like coming home after a long absence, since FreeBSD is where I started my OSOS journey. CON: Hardware compatibility issues, limited (compared to #Linux) native graphical software, bad for closed-source gaming (basically everything has to be run through WINE), community can be prickly (although I generally RTFM before asking).

Anyway, that's where I'm at. I could also give #Guix a shot, I suppose, but I need nonfree wireless globs or whatever and I don't have a physical ethernet port on my lappy/

@vogi #Ubuntu traditionally has more device support in their kernels and base. Ubuntu has newer packages in their repositories, equivalent to Debian testing. Ubuntu traditionally includes some GUI tools to make life easier for non nerds to administer the system. So, easier work for a dev to create a new distro.

Having said all that, #Debian, these days, is good enough.

With the rush by enterprise distro's (Fedora/Ubuntu/SUSE) to comply in advance with the new fascistic surveillance laws, good alternatives do exist.

For example a drop in replacement for #Debian that eschews the loathsome #systemd is #Devuan. If that is a little too much work there is a rather good spin of #Devuan called #VendefoulWolf Linux - a Spanish distro. Rather a mouthful he he. Vendefoul is Vengeance in Spanish.

It sucks but I'm just a nobody in the grand scheme of things. A bear without a friend, connections, nor the energy.

Man, closing my eyes sure feel good. I'm dozing off. I gtg nap. Good luck to y'all. If worse comes to worst I guess I'll move to voidlinux and devuan. I'm adaptable anyway.

#linux #systemd #archlinux #debian #fedora #opensuse #opensource #ubuntu #voidlinux #devuan

@gvwilson

'at' command is much simpler syntax.

Package installable in wide range of distro repositories, including #devuan