If you decide not to go the BSD route, you should look into Void Linux. The maintainers used to be BSD people and they have carried some of that influence into Void.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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Honestly, if you want to try it to tinker, it's awesome, but you will need to compile from source a lot, and troubleshooting is harder without the big community. This makes it a bit impractical for a daily driver
It's very similar to using linux in the 2000's
I use it for desktops and servers. It's rock solid, small (compared to Linux) and performant.
I wouldn't use it if you like to run windows games or software, and sometimes hardware support can be sketchy. I've been lucky.
Try it out.
I wouldn’t want it for GUI use. As a headless server it’s amazing.
Why not? OpenBSD on a Thinkpad was a very good experience until I needed bluetooth and some other things not supported at the time. Maybe not as fast as the more optimized Linux distros but good enough for me, and more things Just Worked than with most Linux distros I tried on the same machine.