>TrueOS may be tempting but my experience with it was not very good. In fairness maybe it’s better now. TrueOS development has been discontinued as of May (?)

>TrueOS may be tempting but my experience with it was not very good. In fairness maybe it’s better now. TrueOS development has been discontinued as of May (?) 2020. Xfce is more than sufficient for my needs - I've been experimenting with TWMs, i3 most recently. As a long term linux user, I'm well accustomed to spending exponentially more time working on the system rather than actually using it. As biologists, our computational skills tend to be middling, so dogfooding linux as my daily driver was a means to learn. If a BSD daily driver takes my learning up a notch, worth it. The top level comments reference to "elegance" and "well designed" is what struck me - these are not things I'd associate with any of the linux distros I've used.