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< Looks like it's time for distro hoping!
Question: is this system your tool, does it have to work always? Or is it more of a toy, wasting considerable time and brain cycles along the way?
My answer: Debian stable for tools. Anything else for toys. :)
Well, the anything list has been shortened in the last 20 years of course. I wasted too much time on suse (sorry ~sherlock) and too many cpu cycles on gentoo. But it has always been interesting. alpinelinux is interesting for me. I did play with nix (the package manager) on a debian stable box a few weeks ago. But well, I ended with > 50000 files in /nix in no time. And who knows, where they come from? Are they signed? Do I get an error message if the signature can't be verified? Hmmmm. Toy? Maybe. Tool? Nope. Then I'd prefer compiling from source.
Not a tool. It's my home computer that I also use to play and learn, but what I expect is after a steep learning curve, to have stability. Also what I find interesting is the single file configuration.