Subj : Re: FreeBSD?
To   : Arelor
From : Atroxi
Date : Thu Sep 10 2020 02:33 pm

-=> Arelor wrote to Atroxi <=-

 Ar>   Re: Re: FreeBSD?
 Ar>   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.

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

I'm curious, how come is it a "BSD-licensed linux"? Yeah, OpenBSD is this thing
in the back of my head that I wanted to try out just for the sheer novelty of
it but I don't know if it will fit my usecase. But we'll see.

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