Obviously it’s a different OS and possibly isn’t relevant to you but I’ve found solace in OpenBSD (and other BSDs) in the search of “simplicity” of “the old days”.
This is a vastly under-rated opinion. I found FreeBSD to be surprisingly superior in my use-cases to Linux as a server OS. From stability, sensible defaults, config files where-I-can-find-them, and more.
My only real headache with FreeBSD has been SAMBA. It seems that every major upgrade bjorked the SAMBA user/account DB, and would cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth. So I learned to deal with that.
I now work for a K8s shop, and find myself migrating back into the linux/systemd fold. There's frustration with systemd'isms, and I truly despise the binary logs; but I'm learning.
I tried FreeBSD a few times, but after ~4 hours of reading docs, searching the forums etc, I was not able to create a fully featured systemd like service. With stop, start, restart and auto restart support. something was always missing or not working correctly.
But what I found was lots of hate and stupid talkin against systemd, that they all hate it and that FreeBSD will "never have this $hit"
I thought to myself, yeah just hate systemd but not able to produce an easy to use and full fledged service manager. The arrogance was staggering, and I stopped my use of freebsd since then, in almost all aspects linux is superior anyhow.
Such a fully featured systemd service is easily done in 6 - 8 lines of configuration.
My only real headache with FreeBSD has been SAMBA. It seems that every major upgrade bjorked the SAMBA user/account DB, and would cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth. So I learned to deal with that.
I now work for a K8s shop, and find myself migrating back into the linux/systemd fold. There's frustration with systemd'isms, and I truly despise the binary logs; but I'm learning.