Hello, I have asked some questions in the forum sometimes so I think some will know me.
I have been a user of gnu/linux since 2011 both desktop and servers, after so many years using linux and try FreeBSD (just a year) I can not be happier with this operating system.
What I like about FreeBSD apart from its stability is the extremely simple it is, very unix-like and this does not exist in almost any linux distribution, for example how to manage the audio I love (not instead as pulseaudio) and Not to mention how to manage the daemons (rc vs systemd) everything is extremely simple and you understand the first simply by configuring it.
In linux in contrast some configurations are strange and although you can solve the problem you can not understand exactly how it works, in FreeBSD everything has a "sense"
On the other hand I love that there is both pkg and ports to install software, it is extremely flexible, gentoo would be the equivalent but I do not like being forced to compile everything but I want and I find it simpler how to configure compilation options in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD is very compared to slackware, and it is true that slackware is the most unix-like system of gnu/linux but it still seems cluttered freebsd without resolving dependencies without the ports in a specific directory, etc ...
Right now the only "advantage" that I see gnu/linux over FreeBSD is the support of hardware and applications (but the truth for that I almost use windows)
Summary: Another linux user who has fallen in love with FreeBSD (although I also want to try other BSD systems like netbsd or openbsd)
I have been a user of gnu/linux since 2011 both desktop and servers, after so many years using linux and try FreeBSD (just a year) I can not be happier with this operating system.
What I like about FreeBSD apart from its stability is the extremely simple it is, very unix-like and this does not exist in almost any linux distribution, for example how to manage the audio I love (not instead as pulseaudio) and Not to mention how to manage the daemons (rc vs systemd) everything is extremely simple and you understand the first simply by configuring it.
In linux in contrast some configurations are strange and although you can solve the problem you can not understand exactly how it works, in FreeBSD everything has a "sense"
On the other hand I love that there is both pkg and ports to install software, it is extremely flexible, gentoo would be the equivalent but I do not like being forced to compile everything but I want and I find it simpler how to configure compilation options in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD is very compared to slackware, and it is true that slackware is the most unix-like system of gnu/linux but it still seems cluttered freebsd without resolving dependencies without the ports in a specific directory, etc ...
Right now the only "advantage" that I see gnu/linux over FreeBSD is the support of hardware and applications (but the truth for that I almost use windows)
Summary: Another linux user who has fallen in love with FreeBSD (although I also want to try other BSD systems like netbsd or openbsd)
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