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by nonrandomstring 622 days ago
So true!

My family have a secret holiday destination. It has unspoiled beaches, friendly locals, cheap beer, amazing restaurants. When people ask where we went for summer we lie. "Oh we went to Ibiza again". Some things are best kept for yourself, not to be popular. We don't want "those sorts" dragging the whole show down to the lowest common denominator.

So listen to the parent poster, and trust me, BSD is a piece of crap. It barely works. the documentation sucks. And it definitely is no use for servers, desktops, laptops or embedded systems.

Go where the crowds are! Linux has something for everyone, with over 8 million lines of code in the kernel! You never know, you might even meet a celebrity like Lennart Poettering hanging around your hotel.

2 comments

Yeah, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. For me, FreeBSD is rock-solid server and workstation OS. Documentation is very good, the Handbook is great, and most of the time the manual pages is all that you need. The ports collection is large and it’s not very hard to package your own software as a port. The OS is predictable and this is something I value highly.
You might want to read the comment you're replying to again.
Oh, didn't I get the sarcasm of the comment I replied to... Thank you for making me reread it, really.
>like Lennart Poettering hanging around your hotel.

Yeah or Ricard ask you to clean he's feet at the pool.

And absolutely with you, please Linux user don't try FreeBSD it's terrible, no device drivers, no docker and ZERO Linux compatibility, and as Linus himself said: ZFS is really not that special. Dear Fedoras and Arch-Fellas, just don't touch it ;)