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Linux is getting too mainstream I gotta switch to freebsd /j
It's just not the same if you don't have to fiddle for hours to get a game to run, is it?
I thought that was the game of Linux, the fiddling.
There's certainly a satisfaction in getting something to work in an environment it was never intended for.
But I can't deny that it's also nice that most games just work nowadays.
I just create new problems to solve to scratch that itch.
Templeos or ye shall be smitten
I'm pretty smitten with Linux already.
Year of the BSD when?
When Mac OS X launched?
When iPhone launched?
When PlayStation 4 launched?
MacOS is "Unix" in paid certification dollars only.
macOS, the Darwin layer specifically, is totally a BSD. Even with the Mach bits in the kernel because Mach itself is derived from BSD.
The fact that the origins of maxOS (OSX) is forked from BSD means nothing. Apple has rewritten just about everything from the ground up at this point.
That's like saying that the year of Linux came when Android release. Sure, but it's a bastardized monster clone of the original.
It's usually "Year of the Linux Desktop" and Android is a mobile platform, not a desktop OS.
Android developments did benefit areas like power saving, so why the hate. Android is no GNU/Linux because of the lack of glibc.
I just run headless Linux and imagine that I'm playing games.
I’m so hardcore I run Linux without a CLi!
Watching the boot log eh?
Haiku or bust!
ReactOS, so I can go against the flow but still not use Windows
MINIX is the way
Nah, Plan 9 is the real Unix.
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