What is BSD? The Berkeley Software Distribution is the original UNIX operating system. Following AT&T's legal attacks in the 1990s: the OS was stripped of proprietary code and renamed 'BSD' to prevent further lawsuits stemming from AT&T's ownership of the name UNIX.
Today, BSD is dominant in the server market for it's networking advantages and stability over Linux / Windows alternatives. macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS are all BSD distros.
Linus Torvalds has stated that had BSD not been paused for legal proceedings, he'd have never bothered creating the Linux kernel, instead saying he'd have just used FreeBSD
Only install FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD) for the pure UNIX experience.
More user-ready distributions include, in order of minimalism: DragonflyBSD GhostBSD TridentOS macOS
Garbage OS that is suck in the late 90s. We want a modern experience with modern hardware.
Austin Powell
why do people keep parroting this? have you ever used it? it (just) works fine on every machine i've put it on.
Mason Wilson
>actual UNIX is garbage that's why I use the locked down, knock off emulator some Jew in Boston made
Camden Scott
I can't use it because I have modern hardware.
Logan Turner
It was a forced meme when PC-BSD came out and regards too afraid to try it keep the pasta alive. Picture a hackintosh capable of also running any Linux program. That's roughly what BSD is now capability wise. There's no hardware Linux can support that BSD can't.
Julian Barnes
and I bet you faggots get buttblasted when some winjeet says the same thing about Linux
Thomas Brooks
It doesn't support my RX 5700.
Jacob Sullivan
go suck sony's dick we don't want you here
Robert Bennett
Works fine on my Ryzen 7 ThinkPad from literally this year. Desktop is packing an RX 5700 no problem.
Tranny shit aside: isn't FreeBSD more friendly for desktop installs? Just something I've heard, I have no idea personally
Daniel Edwards
FreeBSD is more suitable for desktops than OpenBSD in the way that Lunix is more suitable for Desktops than FreeBSD... barely, but there is some QoL improvements. Better yet, run a real desktop OS, save Lunix and FreeBSD for servers.
Adrian Diaz
Can I use my favorite desktop manager, Deepin, on FreeBSD?
Jason Harris
Sure can. BSD has a repository just for the Linux packages. It's secondary but usually comes bundled into the install so you can pick any DE you want.
I don't know if all this sudden BSD shilling is just a glownigger psyop to lure in all you Nazis after discovering a huge vulnerability or not, but you've gotten me to bite. Gonna install OpenBSD, lads, wish me luck.