Never go full BSD!
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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Obvious answer is something like switching to something like BSD, but the less obvious answer is to look into switching to AROS ( AROS Research Operating System, formerly Amiga Research Operating System ).
BSD definitely is a lot more complete compared to AROS, so using AROS will make you superior if you can find a way to keep your workflow as much as possible while making it your daily driver.
Warning: AROS is, as far as I know, not fully open source, but that can be fixed with some reverse engineering that's well above my pay grade.
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RISCOS of course
One of the more obscure variants of BSD. Alternatively, GNU/Hurd
TempleOS for the nuclear option.
OpenBSD is pretty cool.
Haiku and ReactOS have been mentioned, but SerenityOS hasn't yet, maybe that is an option too. :D
LFS only.
Haiku or some port of AmigaOS, sadly forgot its name and Iβm too lazy to Qwant it.
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https://100r.co/site/uxn.html is a fun one :D
It can run on just about anything.
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Nixos. Definitely more complicated, but better, and superior π
DOS!
If we want to avoid being normie, there are a lot of DOSes out there other than MS-DOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS
DOS (/dΙs/, /dΙΛs/) is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers.[1] It primarily consists of IBM PC DOS and a rebranded version, Microsoft's MS-DOS, both of which were introduced in 1981. Later, compatible systems from other manufacturers are DR-DOS (1988), ROM-DOS (1989), PTS-DOS (1993), and FreeDOS (1994). MS-DOS dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995.
And I'm sure that there are also incompatible-with-MS-DOS DOSes. The Apple II OS was ProDOS.
searches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_operating_systems_called_DOS
A ton I've never heard of on there.
I had a FreeBSD niri setup that worked quite well for a bit. The jail-based containerd stuff was exciting, but not mature enough for my needs, so I had to leave it behind. Since then I've read lots of news about maturing wifi and ither improvements.
Graphics will always be behind, unforrunatrly; ZFS is starting to show its age too.
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Go back to IBM OS/2 Warp 4! Back when there was still actual choices in desktop computing...
Linux forks.
Elks linux for starters.
The only place left for you is freeBSD and writing your own tiling window manager
There is another... 
(There are dozens of us, I swear)
What about trying Harmony OS?
Just keep a stash of healthy butterflies around, and occasionally get one to flap its wings.