Does FreeBSD make you happy? Explain why

[drhowarddrfine]

vermaden You just have a bad attitude.

 

[fmc000]

Yeah but he's right on the money! OSes should be out of the way as much as possible, therefore the least you need to acknowledge their existence the better.

 

[mer]

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"

 

[lost_in_c]

"It's a great company. Everybody that works there is super ingenuous and gruntled."

 

[DrJuanNadie]

it just feels great using the computer-- like in the spirit of Sir Sinclair, "Computing is Fun!"

Exactly!

makes me happy by being a proper operating system

Yes, it is!

I have an orgasm every time I switch my FreeBSD system on.

 

[rbranco]

My ancestors were all farmers so taking care of my systems is like flowering a plant or petting an animal to me.

Beastie, Gecko, Puffy & Tux are fluffy.

 

[balanga]

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 he 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.

 

[Espionage724]

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?

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

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

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!"

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.