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by wolvoleo 66 days ago
I am not negative about it at all. I love it.

It's not as polished as linux obviously, especially for desktop usage but the maintainers are very much on the ball (and they do a lot of work to get things to compile and work, there's a lot of linuxisms they have to work around).
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Gud 66 days ago
Why is that “obviously “? I find Linux to be a broken mess.

FWIW I use them both, FreeBSD and Arch , but let’s not pretend the layers of crap tacked onto the Linux kernel is some pinnacle of computing.

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wolvoleo 64 days ago
It's because the userbase is 500 times smaller (really, Linux is like 5%, FreeBSD 0,01%. You can't expect the same attention to detail.
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realusername 65 days ago
While I like the simplicity from FreeBSD, this simplicity also comes specifically because there's less contributions.

I doubt anything can get the scale of Linux and not have some mess.

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ux266478 65 days ago
> this simplicity also comes specifically because there's less contributions.

Not entirely. A rather large amount of Linux's mess stems from the fact that it was a hobbyist project in its foundational years. It was never clean or well designed, at any point in its life. Go look at Linux 1.2.0 vs FreeBSD 2.0

Even when Linux began to get traction, it had already developed an ingrained culture that didn't particularly care about "nice" code or architectural solutions. The BSDs inherited their culture where such things were prioritized. You're right that things get messier as they get larger, but the gap between the two is much, much larger than can possibly be accounted for. Things like Linux not respecting NICE values have very little to do with surface-level problems like stylistic inconsistencies in the source code.

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