The first jump to Debian was the most intimidating for me learning CLI commands for the first time and not having defaults chosen for me, but it was liberating to finally learn the actual tools and not just learn a GUI abstraction for tools.

I feel it, I am in the process now of transporting everything and I couldn’t agree more. I have a semi-idea of trying nixOS sometime, and I only recently learned about podman existence, is it that different to docker? I read it’s not a 100% replacement, but I guess it depends on the use-cases.