Excellent from my point of view, however my use case is niche and my installation is headless and as bare bones as it gets.

I left for Void at the beginning of the year, and it knocked my socks off.

I used MX for a handful of years after CrunchBang ceased development. I decided to migrate to just a core Debian install at a certain point, when I realized I was basically installing custom everything, and wasn’t really using MX the way it was probably intended.

It’s a good, mid-weight choice. Nothing negative to say about it.

Thank you. I have a handful of things populating this rack:

• Dell PowerEdge R730xd running Unraid. Mostly acts as data server, with a handful of Docker services for the home.
• Custom gaming server. Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5090, running Bazzite.
• UniFi UDM SE router + USW Pro HD switch + U7 Pro XG access point. 10gb SPF+ fiber ports go BRRR.
• ThinkServer RS140, circa 2014. Has a capture card in it, and it’s sole purpose is a headless analog video capture server, running antiX.
• RetroTINK 4k + Kramer A/V switcher. Upstream of the RS140.
• A cheap Panasonic VCR, while I get my new dedicated deck serviced.
• CyberPower OR2200PFCRT2U 2000VA UPS. I need to see about getting a second one.
• 4x Pi rack. One bay has a PiKVM in it that can be patched into whatever headless server I may need to at the moment. A second bay has a 4B in it that’s waiting for a PoE hat, so that I can turn it into a wifi hotspot that backs up my dashcam footage while my car is in the garage.

Maybe some other stuff I’m forgetting.

I watched ads for local companies liquidating server rooms, and walked away with a 42u Dell rack for a pretty good bargain. Took a couple months of monitoring though.

I recently revived a circa-2014 Thinkserver with a core install of antiX, and was pleasantly surprised. I went for the smallest footprint possible by installing only the core distro, and then choosing the packages I wanted/needed.

Void + Mango has been my jam.

Could someone knowledgeable tell me why desktop Linux has seemed to be ‘chosen’ in comparison to something like FreeBSD or OpenBSD?

I’m not necessarily knowledgeable, but I’ve gathered that Linux has historically been a little more approachable than the *BSDs, for the average person.

Oddly, Void has been the first distro for me where it felt like hibernation just worked out of the box. Sorry though, I have no suggestions.

For the last 11 years.

Are you suggesting that I’m not successful?

That’s true. Maybe I’m just projecting, because I think Void is best pieced together from a bare bones install.

Void is amazing, if you don’t mind a distro that you basically have to config from the ground up. I personally am a huge fan.

It probably immediately phoned home and woke Bill Gates up in the middle of the night.

Volkswagen. Pre-2000s Volkswagen. In the 90s and earlier, their aircooled and watercooled cars were amazing junkyard tuners, that just wouldn’t die.

i can imagine how that would happen

seems kinda gay

Well, the bar has been set pretty low.

I shouldn’t have gotten high and asked to suck his dick.

I’m currently using systemd, but have been strongly contemplating a migration to Void, which would have me using runit

Okay, so I did some research:

This Fucking Guy

• Doesn’t do anything
• Never really did anything
• Got tired of the expectations of never doing anything
• Emigrated to America, under the excuse that he finally wanted to do something
• Still doesn’t really do fuck all

This Fucking Guy’s Wife

• Used to do something
• Married this fucking guy and no longer does anything
• • Brits hate this one simple trick!
• May have convinced this fucking guy that his family is the root of his not doing anything
• Moved to America with this fucking guy
• Does fuck all