Let me start by saying that I moved away from Ubuntu-based distros a couple years ago. They're an absolute trash company. I used Linux Mint Debian Edition for quite a while, until I acquired a Dell Precision Tower 3620 that had some driver issues. Around that same time I started playing with KDE Plasma 6 and quite loved it. I briefly installed KDE Neon, which was great, but the non-KDE packages were absurdly out of date. I ended up installing Fedora 40 KDE Spin and loved it. It was ridiculously up-to-date. It worked smoothly.

Earlier this week I gave up. I've got too many bookmarks in too many places, and it's become impossible to find anything. I just cannot manage anymore. I've got business bookmarks in my business Nextcloud Bookmarks. I've got personal bookmarks in my personal Nextcloud Bookmarks. I've got notes to myself in Signal and Teams. I've got social media discovered bookmarks in Mastodon and Friendica. And at this point none of it makes any sense!

I love and use a couple different open source web hosting control panels, but I'm always on the lookout for something new. I headed over to AlternativeTo to see if there were any alternatives that I might not be familiar with. I came across ApisCP. I've heard of it before, but never tried it.

NethServer's claim is it's a "Small Business Linux Server Made Easy." Indeed, I've played with the version 7 of the server in the past and that description was quite accurate. But it was completely rebuilt for version 8. They were going for a cloud, multi-machine, containerized application system, rather than a dusty old desktop sitting in a closet somewhere.