Just wanted to drop in and say how happy I am with SMOS.
Here's a brief recap of my experience that I think is worth sharing in case someone else falls into the same pattern and can learn from my mistake:
I installed SMOS on 3 rigs and ran it for a few days. Everything ran well and I should have been happy with that. But, I wanted to mine some exotic altcoins and thought that switching over to another OS would give me more options since it had more miners integrated into the platform. It also had more features or bells-and-whistles and so I decided to switch over. Everything seemed great for a few hours (until night time) and then I started having issues. Issues that lasted for nearly 2 weeks that cost me a lot of sleep and time wasted on troubleshooting my hardware when there was nothing wrong with it.
First, I was dealing with security issues for an entire week where my rigs would mine to someone else's address in Amsterdam every morning at 2AM. Next, I spent over a week dealing with network issues where my rigs would randomly fall off-line and then never reconnect. Then I spent more than a week dealing with a rig that would periodically drop to 50% of it's total hashrate and stay there until I rebooted it. Of course, it took about 5-10 reboots before the network connection was re-established.
So, after losing a lot of sleep over the past few weeks with using another OS that appeared to have more features and mining options, etc... I decided to switch back to SMOS and I've had three solid days of great performance. My quality of life has greatly improved since switching over to SMOS because I'm able to step away from my rigs and sleep comfortably which has made me a very happy miner.
In hindsight, I wish I could've been content with a sold-working OS because it would have saved me a lot of time and money. But, I feel that I learned an important lesson and that is; stability is more important than fancy features when it comes to mining.
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