Devuan, of course, because it's one of the very few which gives me the freedom to choose the init system (not tied to the invasive systemd mega-virus) as well as to chose whether I want to use any non-free packages or to have a 100% opensource OS.
I'd rather use only BSD (OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD and Haiku), of course, but I like btrfs too much to stop using Linux totally. I wish btrfs was ported to BSD and Haiku, and I'd say ta-ta to Linux in a heart beat.
Made a mistake! Haiku isn't a BSD system, but a BeOS open source replacement, although I believe it is POSIX at least to a certain degree. Sorry about that!
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Have you considered FreeBSD with ZFS?
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ama 19 Feb 2023
Sure, I do use ZFS in FreeBSD and TrueNAS (and FreeNAS before, and NAS4Free), and I even tried it in Linux, but I don't like it as much as I like btrfs, so most of my servers, workstations, and laptops run Linux, and only a few run Open/Nez/FreeBSD or Haiku.
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I’ve used btrfs many times and always had hiccups. The latest experiment has been using it on Fedora as /home, which has been good, but I’m essentially using it as ext4 2.0 - not exactly a stress test.
I’ve used ZFS extensively and while it can be less flexible IMO it’s a direct consequence of its superior design.
I’m sympathetic to Jim Salters article [0] on the topic even though I’m still rooting for a modern GPL filesystem. Maybe bcachefs [1] will end up taking the crown…
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