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BSD users, under what condition would you recommend BSDs? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by clehaxze@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So I'm about to get a new laptop (likely 13th gen intel) since my current one is breaking down. Currently I run Arch Linux on my device and is looking into FreeBSD or OpenBSD as the OS. Mainly because once I tried to look into the Linux kernel and can't believe the amount of spaghetti in it. I've read a little bit of Free and OpenBSD kernels. They look a lot nicer. And I travel a bit with my laptop to visit a few infosec conferences. I hear the BSDs have a more solid kernel then Linux (I know BSDs are OSs).

I'm use my laptop to browse the internet, remote into my boxes to code and email. And I tried to use both in VM and feels ok with them.

Can experienced BSD users share some pitfalls and why or why not to use BSD?

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[–] ciagovv@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, if you want to try it to tinker, it's awesome, but you will need to compile from source a lot, and troubleshooting is harder without the big community. This makes it a bit impractical for a daily driver

It's very similar to using linux in the 2000's