I’ve paused my experiment with FreeBSD. It’s good (some parts really good) but I got caught on a number of barbs such as power management and serial ports. I could have nerded harder, but there are other things I need to do.
It did confirm my dislike of the shitshow that is software application management under Ubuntu and it’s derivatives, and it introduced me to ’naked’ Gnome which I actually quite liked. No desktop clutter and simple app launching by pressing ‘Super’ and then typing the start of the app name that I want. ‘T’ is enough to get me a terminal.
So I’m typing this on a Debian install. Naked Gnome and sensible software management ticks my boxes for now. My printer Just Worked, and suspend/resume for this desktop is seemless. All I need to do now is figure out if there is some WOL magic so I can kick it out of suspend from my laptop if I want to.