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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Yes and try out a BSD, folks! Choices (in no particular order):

So why choose BSD over Linux as an open source operating system to run on your computer? Because BSDs feel much more cohesive as operating systems! Every Linux distribution I’ve ever used had the feeling that it was still sort of a cobbled-together patchwork of software with a package manager and repository to maintain it.

BSDs, on the other hand, feel like they’ve been designed as a unified whole by a group of people whose goal is to build an operating system. With this comes better organization and documentation. BSDs also include software projects that are written specifically for the operating system.

If you try a BSD and start to like it, you may want to check out BSDCan, North America’s Largest BSD Conference. This year’s conference already took place in mid-June but all of the talks have been posted to the BSDCan YouTube Channel.

Lastly I want to say that if you’re very comfortable with Linux as your daily driver OS but still potentially interested in BSD, you can always give it a try on a spare computer. All of the above BSDs (except DragonFly) will run on a Raspberry Pi, for example.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

I've tried it as a deskop and while I did get everything going it kinda felt like staying in an Airbnb. Everything looked nice and all the appliances matched but there were kinda blank areas where the owner didn't know what to put there so they just painted it white. But that's use as a desktop.

I ran a pfSense machine for a while and poking around in FreeBSD felt like a very coherent setup, not at all like the patchworkness of Linux. Guess I'm gonna have to set up a few VMs.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 38 minutes ago

Tried which as a desktop? FreeBSD is mainly used for servers. I think OpenBSD gets used a lot more for daily driving on laptops (by the dev team for instance) and so may be more polished.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Also, IIRC,some of the lead dev team for FreeBSD are (or were at one point) Canadians.

Edit: I was thinking of OpenBSD, not FreeBSD. See the reply below for more correct information.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Theo de Raadt, founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, lives in Canada.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you, that's who I was thinking of.

It has been a while since I spent a lot of time in BSD land.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Me too actually. But it will always remain near and dear to my heart.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

You were right, though. You used to see a lot of a certain @istar.ca address in the FreeBSD tech tips fortune(6) file.