Subj : Re: FreeBSD?
To   : Atroxi
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Aug 26 2020 05:51 am

  Re: Re: FreeBSD?
  By: Atroxi to Chickenhead on Wed Aug 26 2020 04:15 pm

 > -=> Chickenhead wrote to All <=-
 > 
 >  Ch> So...anyone using FreeBSD here?
 > 
 >  I've actually started running FreeBSD on my laptop for quite some time now. I'm
 > astounded at how compatible my stuff are to it and I have had less than 10 issues
 > migrating my workflow to it. I wish FreeBSD had good Steam support so that I can
 > wholly jump ship to it. But as it stands right now, I have to keep my desktop runni
 > Linux on the off-chance that someone invites me to play a casual game every once in
 > blue moon.
 > 
 >  But other than that, I'm liking how FreeBSD handles things. It might sound overly
 > cliche but all their talk about stuff being clean and easy to understand is true. I
 > don't consider myself a technical expert on lower level stuff but the way they wrot
 > their handbook and their system manpages are just awesome and really approachable. 
 > used to say that I learned a lot about my computer using Linux as compared to using
 > Windows but now I can say that I learned a lot more about computers using FreeBSD t
 > using Linux.
 > 
 > ... You want to delete me right? Yeah, you sure do. You slut.

FreeBSD is nice. It feels a lot like a BSD-licensed Linux at times, though. When I
want a BSD experience I usually end up running OpenBSD, but that is a different beast.
If you run that one, expect to do some software porting if you want to make the most
out of it :-)

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