GrapheneOS for as long as it s available, then probably PostmarketOS for that Nokia N95 experience

Hard agree! It fills a really specific use case, for ease of use, relatively simple projects (though like any simple tech, artists gonna art and make something massive lol).

Aurduor and the like (I jumped over to Reaper) are truly excellent options for more intense projects.

Yah, I really like this approach. Same reason I set up Timeshift and Mint Backup on all the user machines in my house. For others rsync + cron is aces.

I dunno… It’s wearing a little more makeup I suppose. It has more dumb user things working out of the box, last I checked. Differentiating them has worked well enough for me that I haven’t done a deep comparison in many years.

I feel seen. Descriptions were apt.

One category missed though, is oldsters like me who started on slack or yggdrassyl, lived on Debian for a decade, and moved to Mint because, eh, feck it, I don’t want to think about configs anymore.

That said, I use mint for my daily, and Debian for anything that does headless work.

I like the sound of that!

However it looks like has a lot of potential for a ‘xz’ style exploit injection, so I’ll probably skip it.

From the project’s README.md : The current maintainer continues to apply pull requests and makes regular releases, but unfortunately has no capacity to do any development beyond addressing high-impact issues. When reporting bugs, please understand that unless you are including a pull request or are reporting a critical issue, you will probably not get a response.

I can’t decide if I’m happy or disappointed that no one suggested I make a Beyowolf cluster.

Thanks for that caveat. I could definitely see myself falling into that

See, this is interesting. I’m out here looking for the new shiny easy button, but what I’m hearing is “the old config-file based thing works really well. ain’t broken, etc.”

I may give that a swing and see.

this looks promising. Seems a little heavy-weight at first glance… How was it to get up and running?

LAN only. I may set up a VPN connection one day but it’s not currently a priority. (edited post to reflect)