Good day everyone,
My name is Patrick and I would like to ask the question, what your opinions are about this topic.
I started to use BSD about 15 years ago, used FreeBSD and OpenBSD for servers in business. For some years I have stopped using it as I was not into system administration any more.
The last years I treated Unix/Linux like wine. Every couple of months I told myself "Patrick, a decent man has to use it". Then I tried, realised it sucks and went back to what I had before. I am now in need to use another laptop and suddenly realised that the last Linux I successfully ran for years was PC-BSD
Long story short, I need an OS for my new (Dell) laptop. I have read through the web about current version and differences between FreeBSD and PC-BSD, yet did not find the answer I was looking for.
I understand this:
FreeBSD - Basic system, nothing new
PC-BSD - Has a bit of an overhead like KDE and such (I prefer slim managers like XFCE) bit basically stays a FreeBSD when it comes to everything apart from packet-manager and initial configuration
Debian - Is my favorite Linux. With any other distribution I had ridiculous problems like programs freezing the system, crashing Xorg and other funny things. Ubuntu is plain rubbish, even worse than Suse and it's YAST manager. Fedora is like a giant beta-version of everything.
So my problem question is, what do I gain by using Debian rather than PC-BSD? And what do I gain by using PC-BSD over FreeBSD? And vice versa of course
This is NOT an invitation for another nice OS war. I know about the usual things that OS 1 can and OS 2 and the other whole enchilada. My intention is purely the desktop point of view. For example, Skype is a terror for FreeBSD, how's PC-BSD doing at the moment? Linux handles it pretty well at the moment. Are there any differences besides the package stuff and configuration between FreeBSD and PC-BSD? And so on.
Looking forward to your opinions!
My name is Patrick and I would like to ask the question, what your opinions are about this topic.
I started to use BSD about 15 years ago, used FreeBSD and OpenBSD for servers in business. For some years I have stopped using it as I was not into system administration any more.
The last years I treated Unix/Linux like wine. Every couple of months I told myself "Patrick, a decent man has to use it". Then I tried, realised it sucks and went back to what I had before. I am now in need to use another laptop and suddenly realised that the last Linux I successfully ran for years was PC-BSD
Long story short, I need an OS for my new (Dell) laptop. I have read through the web about current version and differences between FreeBSD and PC-BSD, yet did not find the answer I was looking for.
I understand this:
FreeBSD - Basic system, nothing new
PC-BSD - Has a bit of an overhead like KDE and such (I prefer slim managers like XFCE) bit basically stays a FreeBSD when it comes to everything apart from packet-manager and initial configuration
Debian - Is my favorite Linux. With any other distribution I had ridiculous problems like programs freezing the system, crashing Xorg and other funny things. Ubuntu is plain rubbish, even worse than Suse and it's YAST manager. Fedora is like a giant beta-version of everything.
So my problem question is, what do I gain by using Debian rather than PC-BSD? And what do I gain by using PC-BSD over FreeBSD? And vice versa of course
This is NOT an invitation for another nice OS war. I know about the usual things that OS 1 can and OS 2 and the other whole enchilada. My intention is purely the desktop point of view. For example, Skype is a terror for FreeBSD, how's PC-BSD doing at the moment? Linux handles it pretty well at the moment. Are there any differences besides the package stuff and configuration between FreeBSD and PC-BSD? And so on.
Looking forward to your opinions!