which O.S. do you use ?

Alain De Vos

Alain De Vos

When you don't use freebd (bad,bad,bad). Which O.S., distro,derivative do you use ?
Me :
-Windows ( for games, steam)
-Artix linux (an arch clone without systemd)
-Redcore linux (a gentoo clone)
-MX linux (a debian clone)
 
Systemd Free antiX Linux mostly and various other linuxes (PCLinuxOS, Mint, Artix Linux and occasionally many more).
 
I have lost count of how many systems I have but they run FreeBSD. I have an iMac g3 running os9 and a windows XP machine using socket 478 Intel chip and a year 2000 Matrox G450 graphics accelerator that I recently put together for an audio project. 😀
 
Windows + FreeBSD. From about one year FreeBSD only: FreeBSD with XFCE (in VM, Windows host). I plan to buy another machine and install FreeBSD as workstation and use it as my main workstation but I have to make space (another desk but room is limited). Anyways, in VM is a pleasure to work.
 
Alain De Vos I can read ebooks with FreeBSD and zathura with the pdf-mupdf plugin. It handles both epubs and pdfs. (Save for kindle, which I read on my phone with the Kindle app.)
And for your question, I am fortunate enough to be able to use FreeBSD almost exclusively--on occasion Linux for a few work related things, usually Fedora, and I have a 2017 Macbook air that I got on sale for about $200, which I sometimes use to use airplay and watch a video on the TV, (though I can do that with a laptop, running either Linux or FreeBSD).
 
Windows; does everything with the least hassle :p

For Linux I go for openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling, up-to-date, seemingly has good QA).

FreeBSD as a desktop OS was interesting, but I found myself going to the handbook/searching too-frequently for minor stuff and don't want to spend time doing that currently; I'm used to plugging in an external NTFS USB drive and GUI'ing files in seconds Windows/Linux, but have to either sit down and configure a similar set-up on FreeBSD, or "quick" mount it through mount command-line and associated flags/research.
 
Servers: FreeBSD. They are headless.
Desktops (the most used one is a laptop): MacOS.
Raspberry Pi: Debian (or Raspbian, same thing).

I will probably sooner or later switch my servers to Debian or Ubuntu, as ZFS support on Linux is getting better, and FreeBSD is CTD or FTD. The one prerequisite for that transition is learning how to do major version upgrades without a full reinstall on a Linux distro.
 
If my work is connected with Windows, then most likely I will have to compromise and use Windows.
It does not depend on me.
I cannot work with Linux or FreeBSD if the program only works under Windows.
Otherwise, FreeBSD is enough for my tasks.
The only thing I will not do now is regularly update the system. It takes a lot of time to restore the environment. Maybe I am some kind of special person, but even after updating the version of the pkg package, the entire system needs to be updated. After that, I have a lot of problems. They are minor, but I see them.
As аstyle wrote, I will try to live on the system as long as the browser can "last" without updates.
As soon as the sites start singing about how my browser is outdated - everything is going to be COMPLETELY demolished and installation starts from scratch.
Naturally, a backup will precede the destruction of the entire system.
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I recently installed siduction - I did not like it. The system freezes, a very long installation. Compared to aptosid, seduction is a complete slow-ass piece of work. Fedora is full of shitty scripts and frequent updates. No time to study their shitty scripts. I don't install any sorts of rolling releases anymore. I'm too old for such tricks. Arch has become somewhat murky. Ubuntu - after 6-7 versions, it's just disappointment. PCLinuxOS has gone down the drain. I installed it a month ago. Immediately destroyed it. 5 years ago it was a great home distribution.
 
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