Introduce yourself, tell us who you are and why you chose FreeBSD

[RiyaOfTheSpectra]

Don't worry, I do too, lots of folks here do actually. It's a great source of information.

I particularly love their list of applications. I go there frequently when I realise that I need an unopinionated tool recommendations for specific tasks.

 

[rawmat]

Hi,
I registered today on this forum

My path was with linux at home from 2004.
If i remember the details, i started with Red hat, then Slackware for a long time
Last five years i distro hop'ed:
Void linux, Crux Linux, Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, slackware on and off.
I feel slackware is in my heart for long using it and also for what make slackware what it is.
I waited to install permanent freeBSD for some isssue, (Wifi atheros, dropbox not available).
But i knew the differences versus Linux.
The main one is --- FreeBSD is a coherent system, Linux is an assembly of unrelated ideas.
Now, for WIFI on Freebsd i use a USB dongle (ASUS nano), and for Dropbox replaced with rclone.
I want to stay here.
And i dont like the path that systemD/Wayland/Ubuntu are taking to sink linux.
Excuse me for my english (i'm italian).

 

[doul]

Although, I still catch myself stealing glances at the Arch Wiki.

I always googling with -linux, is that serious, doctor?

 

[matt_k]

I always googling with -linux, is that serious, doctor?

It may also be useful to do that, you can find application-related information which is OS independent.

 

[PhatLe]

Hello all

I am Phat Le and after 3 tries and errors i got my freebsd running today on hyprland. It has been frustrating, but fun journey and lots of learning to do still especially how things work jails and so on. All is new for me in here. Been running basically all Linux distros already distro hopping and even build my own custom ones ostree based or bootc images just for fun and learning. I choosed for FreeBSD since i think it is time now to learn it and it has much more functions that i want especially stability and security side and i can make it much better to me and my flow.

About me Old grympy one leg on ground already. Just Graduated as Software developer and going on UNI now for Cyber security Specialist and Ethical hacker 4 years starting on August. I have been self learned 7 years on Linux and Software developing before i even went to school to study on it.

Looking forward to learn this seems really fun and the right thing to do even was thinking 2 years sometimes i should test it and here we are now.

I am known on problems on my hardware i dont run easy laptop for linux or here Dell XPS 9510 model basic things work pretty solid, but i couldent figure yet bluetooth so using now logiops dongle and oh the fun is happening to figuring nvidia it might be working since drivers are loaded and nvidia-smi is working and so is intel i915. so not too much issues small things and yes will need cuda to system too, but those not so important now

happy to be here