Im more interested in using unix than i am in not using windows.
which BSD is the best and why and what hurdles may i experience during the switch from linux.
also i heard that bsd has better performance than linux, any truth in that?
Red pill me on *BSD
Dominic Nelson
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Nathan Thomas
For desktop usage, I would pick FreeBSD if it's your first time trying BSD as it has the most software and the file system does not suck like openBSD. Be prepared that you wont be able to use netflix, spotify, vmware workstation and some others. You have to tweak the system for desktop performance, it's a lot slower to boot than a Linux distro but when it's turned on it's running fine, it's stable, simple and you can use the FreeBSD ports to compile packages from source or the package manager "pkg" to install binaries. The FreeBSD Handbook is a good reading and tells you exactly how to do
Jeremiah Wilson
DragonFlyBSD.
Samuel Lewis
BSD sucks ass, and it's not really Unix. Unix systems were all commercialized and technically impressive in at least one way in order to sell them. These Unix distros were often tied to equally impressive hardware, like SGI's XIO crossbar switch which connected various hardware subsystems in a way that would keep the OS responsive under load. To this day Shitblows, Loonix, BSD, and OS X will freeze or lag if you push the machine too hard.
Protip: Stick with Linux. It's shit but at least it's the easiest system to run all your day to day software on.
Gabriel Sullivan
Is it stable for daily driver? I like the HAMMER2 filesystem but the OS does not feel as polished and I dont know how many active developers it has
Parker Moore
BSD is like Aramaic. A dead language.
Jose James
hey pal, i grew up with aramaic as my third language.
Jose Rodriguez
For a very, very small amount of use cases, bsd is the best choice. For 95% of use cases, Linux (specifically more entry-level distros, like Fedora and Ubuntu) and Windows are better. Unless you're a wizard (both definitions) or have a very specific task in mind that bsd excels in, don't bother.
Jeremiah Cooper
I don't know if those girls are hired for modelling with a red suit and horns because nowadays most western girls are hideous.
Josiah Bennett
>BSD sucks ass, and it's not really Unix. Unix systems were all commercialized and technically impressive
SunOS was BSD based
Ultrix was BSD based
NeXTstep was BSD based.
Without BSD you wouldn't have any of them.
William Turner
After researching i found that most linux binaries run on BSD, apparently with better performance too
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>freeze or lag if you push the machine too hard
thats how computers work you fucking idiot
>Stick with Linux. It's shit bu...
i think its safe to chalk that up to you just not knowing how to use it
there are a lot of active communities around BSD and development is still ongoing. Furthermore, The Netflix servers run BSD and the FreeBSD foundation recently received a 6 figure donation from some chink company which isnt an anomaly in their donation history. So you tell me if its dead.
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That being said, i decided on PacBSD with P9P
Aaron Long
>thats how computers work you fucking idiot
That's how bottom of the barrel consumer shit PCs work, faggot.
Carter Foster
Don't waste your time with BSD. It's not ideal for home desktop use it is best for servers, and for sperg autists who prefer to use chromium extensions for everything they do because they cant install anything more useful than that, and the desktop environments are disgusting.
Easton Cooper
>freebsd is a bunch of commie faggots
>Chinese donate to it
Shocking
>servers use it
And are you running a server, or a home use laptop/desktop?
>his computer freezes and lags
>most linux binaries work on BSD
Good luck with that dependency hell, dipshit.
Luis Stewart
If you wanna learn BSD that's fine. But if you think it's going to replace a Linux system as your primary driver, and take care of you better, then well... just don't say we didn't warn you.
Jack Miller
Every year the gap between Linux and the BSDs is increasing.
They were competitive 15 years ago, but nowadays it's embarrassing how behind they are.
There is virtually no thing they are better at than Linux; they don't really have a niche where they excel.
OpenBSD was all about security, but Linux has caught on, with many in-kernel exploit mitigations, with things like live kernel patching (something OpenBSD can only dream of), etc.
FreeBSD was all about performance on Intel architecture, but Linux has also caught on, and is in fact faster than FreeBSD.
NetBSD was all about cross-compilation and portability and, you guessed it, Linux has also won that game.
With Linux you get all of that, in a same system. So what's the point of using BSD? A few companies like to take parts from it due to its license, but that's about it.
OpenBSD fanboys are mostly talking about man pages, but seriously who gives a shit.
FreeBSD fanboys used to talk about ZFS all the time, until FreeBSD moved to track fucking ZFS ON LINUX as their ZFS upstream...
Zachary Hall
1, no systemd
2. no fucking systemd
3. fucking intel graphics works fine
4. everything else is the same
Parker Hernandez
OpenBSD if you're okay with not having video drivers, otherwise FreeBSD.
Isaac Peterson
's/video/Nvidia/'
Aaron Rogers
if you're okay with not having VAAPI or any other hwaccel in ffmpeg
Julian Kelly
BSD rules because I can steal it and make my own distro and sell it legally.
Linux users are Stallmans personal boytoys.
Robert Baker
>steal
no
Adam Cook
>and the desktop environments are disgusting.
but it has literally every DE available for *nix
and freebsd's collection of window managers, my god, I think it's the biggest one on the web, bigger than arch's
Grayson Wilson
BSD license says that you'll have to attach a copyright notice where you mention the original authors to your derived code, no matter if it's closed-source or open.
Daniel Walker
>There is virtually no thing they are better at than Linux; they don't really have a niche where they excel.
They excel at being a stable, old school, old-fashioned system that doesn't care about the rat race of constantly "evolving" "innovating" IT clowns.
Dylan Brown
>aramaic as my third language
What country are you from??
Ceren Ercen was quite the booth babe back in the day.
>SunOS was BSD based
Not sure why they abandoned it.
>Ultrix was BSD based
It was a troglodyte of an OS since they shoehorned VMS compatibility into it. Not a success.
Angel Adams
>Not sure why they abandoned it.
COSE and system VR4 initiative. AT&T bought a majority of Sun stock. The whole Industry whent SysVR4. But even SysVR4 had BSD code in it.
Cameron Bennett
just use macos, its the best unix desktop OS there is, period.
pro tip: you dont need to buy a mac to use it btw
Luis Johnson
Caleb Ward
you're retarded. there is no PC that has no limit to the amount of workload it can handle
Landon Gomez
imagine being this misinformed
Ayden Johnson
That's not what I said. I said that the architecture of some machines allow them to distribute that workload in a manner that prevents them from locking up and shitting the bed.
But you're right, there's no x86 PC that won't freeze and shit itself, because PCs are for /v/toddler consumer queers, like you.
Hudson Cooper
>What country are you from??
achaemenid empire
Kayden Green
>x86 PC's are bad
Grandpa misses his RISC workstation from the late 90's.
Alexander Phillips
oh the irony
Andrew Campbell
The girl on the left, her smile reminds me of
>pic related.
Jacob Bailey
RISC architecture is going to change everything
Jayden Foster
is that the new P6 chip?