| Linux user for 25+ years here. (When did kernel 0.9 come out?) I learned how to perform basic admin tasks for Linux and OpenBSD in the 1990s. I relearned how to do all those things under Linux at least five times since then, and am facing yet another round of "why the fuck is everything broken (regressed back to worse than 1998 levels of stability) and different again this year?" with my Linux machines. I recently installed OpenBSD and FreeBSD in VirtualBox VMs and am doing a bake off for my next desktop OS. FreeBSD is slightly ahead from the "annoyingly terrible stuff works in a pinch" perspective, since I have some windows game getting to a splash screen via LLVMPipe under Steam. (It runs out of DRAM, and needs a GPU that doesn't exist, so I'm counting this as working.) OpenBSD is ahead from the "if its available at all, then it is solid" perspective. Both of them are more familiar to me than the Linux desktop that's hosting the Virtual Box VMs. Also, I'm increasingly concerned about the ethics of the upstream Linux development community. Red Hat's new business model is based on violating the GPL (maybe they are not technically breaking it, though I think they are), and they have enough weight to force the ecosystem to do whatever they want. They've rammed all sorts of user-hostile crap (most of those regressions, for example) on to my (ubuntu, arch, etc) machines, so it's not just a theoretical concern. |