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            8 months ago

            Its more of a niche. You probably won’t have the huge support you have on gnu/Linux nowadays

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              8 months ago

              “gnu/Linux nowadays” is unusable on old hardware (except distros like Alpine) I think?

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                8 months ago

                There are a bunch of distros focused on old hardware compatibility. I often install Linux on 32 bit laptops from around 2008 and they work perfectly

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            8 months ago

            It’s not necessarily better, some things are a personal preference. Though some might be able to list some technical pros and cons.

            Some things I appreciate are:

            • base systems and packages are completely separate. Packages and their configuration goes in /usr/local/ No where else. (Thought they might write to /var/ )
            • bsd init, not systemd. Feels more home to me as a late 90s slackware user.
            • first class zfs support. Linux has caught up lately, especially now that there is a shared zfs codebase for both Linux and FreeBSD. When I switched to FreeBSD on my home server ~10 years ago that wasn’t the case.
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        8 months ago

        That research is much easier than figuring out what is computer’s “stack” without using my first language!

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          8 months ago

          Dude I’m a beginner struggling to learn Linux because there are so many options, so few good explanations, and people like you only want to patronize me

          I just want a tldr

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            8 months ago

            so few good explanations

            What a lack of documentation. On BSDs we didn’t suffer that.

            I just want a tldr

            BSD is an operating system. It diverged into FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.