Because money

Since OpenWrt is just Buildroot with networking libraries and a package manager, I would say Buildroot itself would be an even smaller Linux. Whether it’s been condemned to eternal torment is another matter entirely, though, lol

Nice! Might be helpful for SBCs with a MIPI camera slot as well

I don’t even know what that stuff is, so I guess my answer is that I just don’t use it 🤷‍♂️

I just use the defaults for everything, haha! Just grub2 for the bootloader, openrc for the init system.

By “home” do you mean DE/WM? If so, I use dwm for my laptop and sway for my desktop.

Gentoo. Been using it for over 3 years now, and I haven’t found a reason to leave yet.