> works great with your Linux distro of choice.

...or you could go with FreeBSD. There's even a brand new release that just came out!

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/

And there's also Triton[0] and vanilla SmartOS[1] it's based on

[0] https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/triton

[1] https://docs.smartos.org/

And as linux is becoming more and more a corpo controlled monoculture, the time has never been better to switch to *BSD and illumos where true freedom awaits.

You mean the *NIXes that via their license hold dev freedom (and corporate freedom without the forced source publication) over user freedom (the purpose of the GPL)?

>...I wish a new company or a community open-source project would pick up from where Apple left off...

There's the Hello System[0]... not sure if it counts.

[0] https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

It's a start, for sure

I miss the Powerbook G3 series. That was some fantastically modular design.

for *BSD and illumos too

...and unofficial support for FreeBSD

https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/davinci-resolve-freebsd-ja...

> SMB is a nightmare to set up if your host isn’t running Windows.

It's very easy on illumos based systems due the integrated SMB/CIFS service.

At least the two Descent: FreeSpace titles...

Or if you'd prefer not to contribute to linux monoculturalization, FreeBSD is available in addition to the other BSD variants and even illumos-based systems.

I prefer to contriubute to linux monoculturization