Funny, but no Slackware :) But FreeBSD is a good choice, but its pf seems a bit outdated. Or should we consider FreeBSD's pf a fork of OpenBSD's and a different product ?
The latter.
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#12Alpine has been my daily driver on all my desktops for a few years now. So happy with it.
Try making a package - it's one big repo and really easy to use another package as a starting point. I built a package for KiCad in a trivial amount of time.
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#13If I were asked this question, except as a piece of trivia exchange, I wouldn't want to work for them. There are arguments in favour of many OSes (including those that I used in the long-ago past on long-forgotten iron), and many against those same systems. Using any OS is generally a trade-off; so if asked `what OS do you use?', I would answer `whatever is suitable for the problem and equipment at hand'. If asked `w…
Enjoying both worlds without having a tribal mindset... That's more like a triple win to me!
…said some Trojans when accepted the Greek's gift horse
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#14No mention of NixOS, which is miles ahead of every other operating system in terms of developer time spent tweaking endless configuration...
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#15Lamers.
https://cachyos.org is Arch without the masochism, and 'riced' to the max, without being fragile.
But yeah, depending on the task Alpine, or some BSD is ok, too.
Regarding ZFS, I couldn't care less. BTFRS has caused me no stress, doesn't need Solaris Portability Layers, and doesn't work against otherwise established memory systems. Feels much smoother and less wasteful for me.
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#16I thought it was funny they spent so much time bashing choice of distro and highlighting various performance considerations only to pick Alpine? Alpine linux uses musl as its libc, which contrary to the articles' claims (unless I'm missing new information?) can have severe performance implications in many production settings. update: I found this April 2025 blog post where someone performed some benchmarks and found…
That link may show the current state of Musl on Alpine, but Musl can be built with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimalloc
https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc
as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_Linux / https://chimera-linux.org/ does.
Which btw. can be done in Alpine, too:
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#17No mention of NixOS, which is miles ahead of every other operating system in terms of developer time spent tweaking endless configuration...
Pretty sure they mentioned it:
> NixOS is the only one that we didn't hate. Technically, it's a marvel, but the learning curve is too high. Because who has time to learn a new system when you can just stick with what you know and complain about it?
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#18No mention of NixOS, which is miles ahead of every other operating system in terms of developer time spent tweaking endless configuration...
Pretty sure they mentioned it: > NixOS is the only one that we didn't hate. Technically, it's a marvel, but the learning curve is too high. Because who has time to learn a new system when you can just stick with what you know and complain about it?
Oh my bad, I missed that! That's well said. NixOS really does solve a lot of this but with the steepest learning curve I've ever seen.