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Same old same old?

It's a big part of the history. Linux has been compared to its competitors all along after all.

I remember FreeBSD being ever present all along. Ultimately, Linux won on many fronts, the biggest one maybe the vast hardware/driver support.

I've used both extensively in the 90's and early 2000's, both on the server and workstation side. Ultimately settling 100% on Linux around 2004-5.

Still, competition on this space is very healthy. Who wants an OS monoculture?