Cluster computing. DragonflyBSD is structured entirely with a multiprocessing design philosophy, gives amazing cache coherency in Beowulf clusters thanks to the way the scheduler works.
Bit of a niche use case, but if you’re doing gpu-unfriendly parallel compute operations like bidirectional path tracing or finite element analysis it really shines.
If you want that long tail, bandcamp and soundcloud are better sources. The barrier to entry is low with those, and there’s a plethora of small, niche artists just doing their own thing.
For a representative snapshot of music though, it’s pretty amazing. It shows what a massive percentage of the planet listens to, preserved hopefully across many seeds, and historians will love shit like this in the future.
on average, i’m earning 3x as much from bandcamp FLAC sales compared to what i earn off streaming. Hasn’t been ruined so far.