facepalm I truly mixed that in my brain. But Valve also has this Dota Chess Game, right? Not sure if you would count that as a success though, have totally lost track of it.

what is a regular desktop non-workstation??

Thanks for the link, so whats left is to have a proper rollback/snapshot feature. I know there are snapper integrations with btrfs for void. But they are not on par with e.g. Opensuse Tumbleweed.

The suggestions made here are already spot on and I can just support the suggestion to use the least amount of extra repos as possible. Packman is the only one I'd consider, also check your repos regularly and see if you can make sense which is what, otherwise get rid of the ones where you have no clue why you had them in the first place (obviously check first which packages they install).

Whom you talking about in terms of "don't trust someone" ? Also where is the connection between closed source and immutable distros?!

Sadly there is no way around it. The mentioned alternatives like regolith have already been mentioned. There is also some smaller distros with prepared twm configs, but I can't recommend it. Because if you want to customize it, you will have a hard time finding the right ways to do it.

This needs to be at the top. Starforged is amazing, because Ironsworn is an amazing system. All the influences you mentioned in starting post are also mentioned as influences for the making of Starforged. The only problem I see, is that your focus on mechanical system for the ship stuff.

Ptba is inherently not as mechanical as other meta systems. But I highly recommend checking it out.

Second suggestion would be Stars without Numbers, Crawford is praised for almost every release he does. You can't go wrong for Sci Fi with his system, it offers quite more crunch than Starforged (from my knowledge, I didn't read or play SWN myself!). But it offers, similar to Starforged, amazing tools for building worlds in a scifi setting, which can be used in any other system you might prefer.

Your experience with FreeBSD compared to OpenBSD is very similar to mine 5 years ago. Didn't manage to get FreeBSD working but OpenBSD install was pretty easy. Although the performance still sucked compared to Linux.

What? Is this sarcasm? CLI offers much more debug potential than GUIs.

chezmoi, although I am not sure I like it. Its the first I tried and some stuff seems very complicated.

How does hyperland configuration compare to sway? Or is it exactly the same?

My first thought as well, have 0 expectations from starfield/bethesda...but pickpocketing in space is a new low.