I have used Sandstorm quite a bit in the past for smaller clients. It's remarkably sane and works as described. Sometimes it could be a little slow with getting

I have used Sandstorm quite a bit in the past for smaller clients. It's remarkably sane and works as described. Sometimes it could be a little slow with getting updates, but I don't know if that's still a thing. The space of Linux distros specifically for self-hosting data has always been a little fragmented, which is a shame since it's really useful for the intended audience. A bit like Linux distros in general, perhaps. Maybe if one of the bigger distributions, like Debian or Fedora, got behind one system it would improve. But that's also how we ended up with Flatpak and Snap, so it could be either way really.