Very true I have been a Debian user since 98. I have tried other distros but it only lasts a month or two before I come back. Debian just works and if you need something newer testing works great got home use. I can wait a little when freeze happens and worse case I have flatpak and distrobox to fall back on.

It’s like people forget Ubuntu is based on Debian but I guess with Snapd that may no longer be true.

Use whatever works for you. Perfect is the enemy of good. If there was anything better or just as good as free software as the few blobs that are in there they would be replaced since blobs are a pain to work around.

The bill I paid for Suse support contact at an old company I worked for begs to differ. The problem is home or smb are a rounding error for MS. They already got your money from hp or Dell etc. When you bought your computer. Making you the product with the ad and the ai bullshit to swallow your data to train their models is all icing on the cake.

Nextcloud and OpenStack if you are looking to run your own cloud like deployments

That’s all good and all but it all you want to do is look at the stream a single html and a htacess page should do the trick

Why Wordpress seems like a heavy solution for a basic web page and lots of maintenance and security vulnerabilities.

I think that’s called a mac