Does FreeBSD make you happy? Explain why

I agree with vermaden drhowarddrfine and fmc000 simply because everytime I have to help my wife with a Windows thing I get pissed off. Why do I need to navigate through 37 different gui screens to find the IP address? Oh system update and now an application doesn't work?

Sometimes a bad attitude preserves your sanity, in response to drhowarddrfine But starting out with a bad attitude is counterproductive.

But I've said this in the past, it's really not the OS, it's the applications which leads to fmc000. If the application you need runs on the OS you want it doesn't matter what the OS is. The problems start when "application doesn't work right" which usually leads to some level of OS debugging steps and if the OS makes it easier for me to do, the OS makes me "not unhappy".

As an aside, we always hear about "disgruntled employees" but never hear about "gruntled employees"
 
FreeBSD would not be as good without this FreeBSD forum.

I don't think I would be as happy if just left to the OS itself and the docs.

Whilst the docs are great, I often think it is difficult to get by in the event of problems without the help of this very supportive community.
 
mer said:
I have to help my wife with a Windows thing I get pissed off. Why do I need to navigate through 37 different gui screens to find the IP address? Oh system update and now an application doesn't work?
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I used Windows since 95 up to 25H2; I find reports of complexity interesting.

ipconfig reports the IP easily like FreeBSD's one-letter-different ifconfig. And regular Windows 11 is boringly-stable enough on my mom's computer that she'd probably benefit from doing Insider testing for the reward points :p
 
raphael said:
Booting into my retro-riced FreeBSD greeter makes me smile, it just feels great using the computer-- like in the spirit of Sir Sinclair, "Computing is Fun!"
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Running on my old powermacs is one of the things I loved about FreeBSD. Now that 15.0 is on the horizon, my 32-bit machines are migrating to NetBSD. I still will run FBSD on (most) of my newer machines.
 
Espionage724 said:
I used Windows since 95 up to 25H2; I find reports of complexity interesting.

ipconfig reports the IP easily like FreeBSD's one-letter-different ifconfig. And regular Windows 11 is boringly-stable enough on my mom's computer that she'd probably benefit from doing Insider testing for the reward points :p
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I tend to agree.

I believe I'm older than you and my Windows experience dates back to the 16 bit era, Windows 3.0. My last Windows-only system was running W95beta, installed from a CD I got with a printed magazine and that was a massive help with my thesis (I graduated in 1995 and at that time W95beta was the only multitasking environment available on PC that could run all the software I needed, go figure). After that in 1996 I started dual booting Windows and Linux until 2001 when I switched to Linux only on my personal systems; that was until May 2024 when I completely ditched Linux for FreeBSD.

However, work and family "need" Windows 11 and whilst I have to say that as a unix guy it's everything but a pleasant experience, I don't think that for a normal user it's particularly complex. For me a few design choices are somewhat disconcerting and if course all the ads and AI thing are rubbish. Remembering the era of W3 onwards (I used all the Windows versions excluding ME, Vista, 8.0 and 8.1 between personal and work) I have to say I don't remember a version more stable than 11, maybe Windows 2000, which BTW had the best GUI ever IMHO.
 
Crumb 611: True Exclusivity: True exclusivity comes not through money or power, for the powerful and the rich are many. True exclusivity comes through knowledge: knowing the path to a small secluded beach; knowing the album “Psychosexual Chapter 2” by The Spookshow, a practically unknown masterpiece; knowing the obscure one-man-band composer of high-octane instrumental metal Berserkyd, whose every song is a hymn; knowing how to install FreeBSD to enjoy the best workflow, a fantastic performance, and near-perfect privacy.
 
I love it when it works. Like today, my first backup using a new, old stock Sun StorEdge SuperDLT 220 desktop tape drive had a sustained transfer rate of 11 MB/s. Which matches the published spec in the 2003 Sun product brochure !!

Special thanks to Justin Gibbs who wrote the ahc(4) driver! It's a swiss army knife, so capable and flexible. It has brought me significant joy!
 
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