@dgold I mostly ran Mandrake way back when. Didn't have a Mac and was bored with Windows. If I didn't use macOS now, I'd probably be running a BSD instead. But I went with the (now unsupported by Digital Ocean) Arch-Linux option for my VPS, back when they had far fewer options at all. (Now they offer at least FreeBSD as a supported choice.)
Still less time and trouble to keep going than rebuild. For now.