Just responding to say I love your username OP lmao

https://arethebritsatitagain.org/

I have to use it at a job. It's awful, the ads on windows 11 especially.

Thanks. How could I forget about Michael Hudson?!

NetBSD didn't fork from Free iirc. They took 4.4 BSD and started developing it themselves of the net.

Theo de Raadt was kicked out of netbsd, and started OpenBSD.

use linux/bsd

the thing it offers is no systemd, and the mx-linux gui tools to configure your system. Also the advanced hardware support (AHS) is a neat feature. They basically take Debian and make it slightly more user friendly. It's just less well known than something like ubuntu or mint.

I like it, for the most part. Obviously you need to check to see if your hardware is supported, but it's a good OS. It's stable, has neat features like boot environments, and it with pkg and the ports tree you can have newer versions of software. Also, they don't make changes to the OS for the sake of it, or because one person or group wants it. They make change with a clear plan in my mind. Sometimes that means features land later in FreeBSD, but they're implemented more thoughtfully imo.

OpenBSD and NetBSD are also cool projects in their own right.

even when chrome was obviously faster, and was gaining in popularity, I still used FF. It's my preferred browser, and using it along with ublock origin makes going online more hassle free. Add to that multi account containers, reader mode, and just the general ability to customize it, I really can't see myself using another browser

btrfs and snapshots is one solution

Also, it looks like you were able to solve the problem, even if you aren't 100% sure why. Maybe the difference in package versions lead to some problem with the bootloader, causing it to go to emergency mode, and updating it fixed the problem?

Another is using a more stable distro....

vlc

for just music/audio musicolet is a good one

I actually kind of like that.

I remember using Icewm and it had a theme that mimicked XP lol.