I really don’t get your reasoning, but I recommend helix (because I recommend it to everybody).

It’s a pleasure to use, and it’s… also not widespread or old enough to have any reported CVE ;)

Oh, it’s written rust IIRC, so it probably doesn’t suckless.

I’d say it’s because:

1. the people who ask for recommendations won’t like (or understand) debian? (it’s just “old packages this” and “outdated that” for most people)
2. the people who do use and appreciate debian don’t read “I hate windows pls recommend me a distro” posts (or at least don’t reply as often as the <insert popular distro> fanboys)

And, no, I don’t use debian myself.

but when I finally switched over to Debian, everything just worked!

That’s most probably because you learned how to use your system without breaking it in the meantime :)

So I’ve been using it for a while! :)

What is the big deal about 4.4.0?

Is this the stable release of the rust rewrite?

Should I just learn how to use Docker?

Since you are not tied to docker yet, I’d recommend going with podman instead.

They are practically the same and most (all?) docker commands work on podman too, but podman is more modern (second generation advantage) and has a better reputation.

As for passing a network interface to a container, it’s doable and IIRC it boils down to changing the namespace on the interface.

Unless you have specific reasons to do that, I’d say it’s much easier to just forward ports from the host to containers the “normal” way.

There’s no limit to how many different IPs you can assign to a host (you don’t need a separate interface for each one) and you can use a given port on different IPs for different things .

For example, I run soft-serve (a git server) as a container. The host has one “management” IP (92.168.10.243) where openssh listens on port 22 and another IP (192.168.10.98) whose port 22 is forwarded to the soft-serve container via podman run [...] -p 192.168.10.98:22:22).

You don’t need to change distro in order to change desktop environment: just install gnome/kde/whatever if you want to give different ones a spin (you don’t need to uninstall your current desktop environment either - you can have multiple ones and choose which one to use when you login)

Is MacOs “absolutely no cli”? It wasn’t when I was using it (admittedly, some 10yrs ago), except maybe for the basic things which any mainstream linux distro also provides.

What about Windows? Back in the day I would have paid to have a semi-decent CLI instead of being forced to use regedit (I hear regedit is still going strong, but I’ve not touched windows for an even longer period than MacOs)