Google A.I. quote of the day.

[Alain De Vos]

Arch users often spend more time "tinkering" to keep a rolling system stable. FreeBSD users often spend more time "configuring" a system that, once set up, rarely changes its underlying behavior.

 

[rdog]

That said, Arch linux has the best ever wiki of the linuxes. Whichever distro you use, the Arch wiki will give you very helpful details on various components.

A thing I noticed since using FreeBSD (not a long time yet), that I'm back to the habit of reading man pages. I found them to be somewhat usable. Maybe they are on Linux too, but my gut sense is that what you learn from a man page (or wiki, for that matter) has the risk of being not transferable between distros. Probably a misguided sense, but one present nevertheless.

 

[fahrenheit]

Usually I complement the Arch Wiki with Gentoo's and Alpine's Wiki as Arch is SystemD only and that creates issues if you system does not use systemd.

 

[Maturin]

Arch users often spend more time "tinkering" to keep a rolling system stable. FreeBSD users often spend more time "configuring" a system that, once set up, rarely changes its underlying behavior.

The difference is: With Linux you have to tinker continuously, or your computer stops working.
With FreeBSD you don't have to configure, but you want to, because you want to add more stuff or fine tune your machine.
Since I don't confuse maintaining a machine with using it I prefer the second way.

 

[recluce]

My primary choice in Linux distros is Artix, which is Arch without systemd. I can draw from the Arch wiki in many cases. If I really need help, I can use the Artix forums. Unlike the Arch forums, they are friendly and helpful. Win-win!

If it is a server, it runs FreeBSD. End of story for me.

 

[mer]

I was expecting Google AI quote of the day to start off with "Hey Siri..."