What makes BSD stand out as its own system? I’ve been thinking about installing it in a new computer mainly for reading but I don’t know much about it.

  • ask@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I like using FreeBSD, the setup feels a lot nicer and more coherent than Linux in a lot of ways. I mainly tried it for native zfs.

    The only downside is that nobody knows it exists so I have to compile things myself a lot or even patch it to get it to compile.

  • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.win
    11·
    1 year ago

    I’m going to get crucified for this… for a desktop end-user it’s basically Linux with completely different syntax, lesser hardware compatibility and limited support channels.

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
      11·
      1 year ago

      No that’s 100% the standard take. FreeBSD is a fantastic operating system but it doesn’t make sense as a daily driver for a personal computer

      • V ‎ ‎ @beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I really wish it was more popular. The userspace feels way more cohesive and the GNUisms of some Linux utilities is annoying sometimes.

        • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It’s actually amazing they got this much hardware support. Heck, they even have Nvidia driver support. It could’ve been worse.

        • HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I do as well but FreeBSD made a lot of self-inflicted wounds. OpenBSD on the other hand runs surprisingly well on a variety of hardware. It won’t run well on the absolute latest but one or two generations behind it works gangbusters.

        • PupBiru@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          that’s the catch though: it’s more cohesive because it’s not popular… people work and design and finesse it into a standard… linux however is popular so has a lot of opinions going into it! and that reinforces itself: it has a lot of stuff so that makes it popular and it’s popular so that means it has a lot of stuff!

          BSD is great for what it’s great for and Linux is good for… pretty much everything