@gumnos Devuan is the real Debian. I still maintain my sanity using it on the desktop, requiring several applications that don't fit on FreeBSD. I use OpenBSD on servers and a laptop and admire its elegance and coherence.
What happens to the Linux ecosystem is really unfortunate and is driven largely by the ignorance of the crowd looking to be hip and rebel against big-tech. Unix has a culture they don't share, and ignorantly impose their own baseless fads on it - quite successfully, while utterly destroying decades of careful construction. Both Devuan and Slackware still stand, but it doesn't look good, especially due to the ongoing change of culture.

@gumnos @vermaden This is a great post. Thank you for writing and sharing it!