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I once tried Gentoo stage 1 because I felt bad ass and failed miserably. However that also taught me a lot.
Hahah. At least you learned some things. Took me a few goes after thinking I was slick having stage 2 down pat. Then tried some BSDs and was humbled again.
Heh, there was a guy on our local forums who daily drived FreeBSD 20 years ago. They probably still using it. 20 years later, I still don't know any other people who daily drive a BSD.
Iβve been running OpenBSD since 2.8. Iβve only met one other BSD user in real life and they were baffled to why Iβd run it as a workstation OS. Sometimes I am too.
That's fair I think :)
Comparing to Linux BSD is quite niche, and I even met a guy who uses Linux other than me in real life was like in 2011 for the first time. No one knew what BSD was.
Personally I only meddled with NetBSD for really old PCs.
I guess I can count you as the first person I know who uses OpenBSD now.
Masochism?
probably
I daily drive OpenBSD. I found it easier to set up than NetBSD which apparently is ass backwards as open is supposed to be harder. for the life of me I just couldn't wrap my head around getting the amdgpu drivers working on NetBSD.
I also found OpenBSD slightly better supported for various hardware than FreeBSD. Wifi works better on it, these old ass logitech headphones I have work flawlessly on OpenBSD when on FreeBSD they just didn't work at all and gave off horrible feedback or I couldn't turn the mic off. Also found setting up a Debian VM much easier on OpenBSD than FreeBSD (still a chore though)
Also OpenBSD for whatever reason probably has the most solid and decently sized gaming community than the other ones.
It's a great OS that just stays out of your way. really fun to tinker with. Just don't expect to do EVERYTHING on it. for surfing, certain dev work, etc it's great.
I see, I thought FreeBSD has the most users so I would guess a better hardware support but apparently not. I was only interested in NetBSD because of backwards hardware compatibility and that's pretty much it, because some stuff has problems even with small Linux distros.
It's quite interesting to see people who also game on BSD by the way. Rock on!
I assumed the same as you when I tried out the BSDs. I went with FreeBSD first because I assumed that was the better supported one. Wifi was absolutely horrible on it. connection would constantly drop, or was slow, etc. on OpenBSD i haven't had those issues. Also had a lot of issues setting up a VM on FreeBSD and getting certain USB devices to work correctly. neither of those issues on OpenBSD.
By the way, I watched a video about OpenBSD and kinda intrigued to put it on my old Thinkpad. Well, at least I'll consider if I can make it without a headache. I have a plan to make a really minimal (and maybe secure) writing machine. :)
i use freebsd on my desktop and server. it's pretty good. linux emulation is also capable so everything just runs!
hardware compat isn't as great tho. my laptop randomly stutters with freebsd so i use linux instead
I heard BSD is solid as a server. The person I know had to compile everything but that was many years ago. I would assume you have binary packages as well nowadays?
I never really used BSD and I only know NetBSD a little. I'm actually curious about a NetBSD server but I'm lazy even for my desktop. And I was considering switching my Debian server to Alpine but I haven't touched that server since 2019 aside from occasional updates, so even that's a big step for me. I guess the more realistic standpoint is I will install Alpine when my netbook finally dies and have to replace it with another hardware. :)
yes there are binary packages available, so i just use 'pkg install ...' like 'apt-get install'. NetBSD also has binary packages and is pretty good. it's all fun to use, but tbh i don't think there's many reasons to move away from a linux system because there's not many clear advantages
Well, to be fair I don't really have time to learn whole another system, even though there are many similarities. I'm just interested, as a hobby. :)
It's good to know they have package managers like Linux though.
honestly just installing Gentoo is a great way to learn various aspects of linux. It's a process, a lengthy one, but if you manage to install it successfully you can pretty much install any distro or BSD with absolute ease and not even think about it.
Totally agree. I installed Gentoo a couple times before (last time maybe 10 years ago though, all were stage3). I tried stage1 once and my Linux knowledge was not even good that time, so there is that. :)
Even installing it will teach you a lot of things.