[Gud]

What are these Linux distributions “in the middle”?

I use FreeBSD and Arch primarily. FreeBSD gives me a lot of customisation options(ports ftw) while at the same time, it’s remarkably stable.

With Arch I find myself praying shit won’t break with every update, and a lot of 3rd party software just don’t work.

Hence why I keep returning to FreeBSD for my servers.

[graemep]

Depending where on the rather broad spectrum between Arch and MacOS you want to be (GP switched from Arch to MacOS because Arch needs maintenance and can break) I would say any of Manjaro, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RH and many more.

> Hence why I keep returning to FreeBSD for my servers.

It sounds like you were using Arch on a sever. You use Arch if you are happy fixing breaking changes. its not for something you just want to keep running.

Specifically for servers Debian is an obvious choice. Suse and a few others are fine too. Possibly Alpine if you want something lighter. Nix if it appeals to you. Void is supposed to be a stable rolling distro and is probably appealing to a BSD user. Many more.

[Gud]

I have never used Arch on a server.

I have yet to find a suitable Linux distribution for the server.

The distributions you mention, Debian as an example, are not at all comparable to FreeBSD.

What many Linux users(that I presume that you are), don’t realise about FreeBSD is that while it’s base is stable and well built, ports and packages are well supported and gives me supreme flexibility.

I have not yet seen such a Linux distribution.