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by gregf 2343 days ago
I been daily driving FreeBSD for the last 3 or 4 years. I was frustrated by a lot of things in Linux at the time, no this wasn't just because of systemd. I don't actually mind systemd on my desktop.

Everything was very easy much like Debian maybe to get going. There's over 10,000 ports most are in package form at any time. Sometimes the build process fails and a package goes away for a short time, but you can always install it via ports.

My biggest gripe is and always will be the fact I can't use my spotify account on my FreeBSD desktop. I don't see this ever changing though. What I have done is gone back to relying on my local music collection a bit more again. I also bluetooth stream spotify from my phone to my receiver, but I'm lazy, hate phones, and don't generally like to do this.

It also has easiest operating system upgrade path out there that I have experienced. Just freebsd-update, reboot, done.

Jails are great, but they need work to be a bit more modern at this point. Docker has kinda showed some type of image repository is a nice feature. I'm not sure we'll see this right away, but BastilleBSD is working on some nice jails based solutions. Based off of FreeBSD, i'm pretty excited to possibly use this in the future.

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> There's over 10,000 ports ...

For the record it is currently over 38,000:

* https://www.freshports.org

Mac is based on FreeBSD I think, and so far in the two years I use one I'm loving it.