slacktoid

Pihole, homeassistant, a music server using moodeaudio

Can you elaborate how? I'm curious

Eh, as long as they don't fuck with the protocol I don't really care. NGL. The community can always maintain a list of instances to defederate from. That can also include matrix.org

I mean I can still self host, what's that got to do with anything? Their server is gonna be freemium so what?

There's also Zed. And helix.

Amongst all the other great alts here

Also neovim is really dope! Just have to throw that there

I like that they are listening to their editors, I hope they don't stop doing that.

Slackware!

And I use Slackware fwiw

While I agree with your point I don't think a lot of people will be open to that cause they may not be aware of base distros and all that and in the end it would seem like you're not listening to them.

OP literally said they want to avoid mint due to bad experiences.

Suggestions?

Oh yes! I mean just empty out the British Museum