This blog by Vermaden is probably one of the most cited in the FreeBSD community when someone in a forum/subreddit asks why FreeBSD. I think it does a good job encapsulating the reasons one would choose FreeBSD over Linux or other OS’s.
I’ve become more partial to the *BSD’s in the past couple of years and respect what each one brings. I do daily drive Debian tho ;)
I still wanna give FreeBSD a try… I just haven’t had much of a reason too yet.
It’s a good os, even if it is lacking in some ways compared to linux. Boot environments/ZFS is pretty great.
I also appreciate that FreeBSD is slower to change, and won’t change just for it’s own sake. Features are thought out and added with care. Linux is obviously a little fragmented, which means development happens quicker and newer features pop up, but then there’s the issue of things breaking, or distros make big changes that force users to find another distro. (Think of the change redhat made to CentOS for example).
yea sometimes I’ll setup a VM with some kind of BSD for fun but whenever I try it on my real hardware I get some weird issues like you mentioned. Similar things happened years ago when I was first messing around with linux and today I have very few (actually almost zero) linux-related hardware problems so hopefully the BSDs follow the same trajectory and eventually become more usable/popular
used thinkpad is your best option I think for BSD
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