Today all I want to do is work so no tinkering.
Second.
That's exactly why I'm using FreeBSD.
To me all Linux I experienced so far was constant tinkering just to keep the system running.
To me many Linux users are masochists who have too much time and no idea what they actually shall do with a computer. So they chose something that breaks regulary, for they have something to tinker with, and being satisfied, when they got the thing finally running again, instead of actually using the computer.
FreeBSD needs to be set up and configured the way you like it. That can be a task, especially when you are new to it, yes. But almost all you need is in the handbook. The rest is in this forums. All you need is to find and
read it. And then that's it. FreeBSD once set up right just runs. No tinkering.
Above all no trial-and-error BS, because there is either no correct up-to-date documentation, or none at all. And when you ask in their forums most you get is, 'Duh, imbecile, when you're not born with that knowledge you don't belong here! Go get back and play with Windows, moron!' I had such so many times with Linux.
Not with FreeBSD.
I'm running FreeBSD since 10.something. No tinkering. Particulary not to just keep the system running.
At least not, when you run quarterly.
If you run some still-in-development-not-yet-released-for-production version, experimenting, or messing things up yourself, e.g. by mixing up packages and ports of different versions all the time, it's your decision, but not FreeBSD's fault when things are not running smoothly then.
Stick to RELEASE and pkg
OR ports, and it's undramatic rock solid. No tinkering at all. Just doing the job. Everything anybody needs who's looking for only doing the work and least tinkering as possible.
Well, of course, sometimes there is a major upgrade, and something is changed, like from 13. to 14. when the default shell was changed from csh to sh. You get a config file to decide with both versions, and need to know that you need to delete the commentary lines, and the ones of the version you don't want. That's not turn key, I give you that. But I wouldn't call that tinkering. Such things happen maybe once a year or every two years, or so.
If you are not impatient - always must have immediately the very top most recent version available for everything within the next five minutes at the latest no matter what, and don't know why, 'it's new, so I must have it instantaneously; yesterday it was version 0.1b.0.2.3.0.1, now there is 0.1b.0.2.3.0.1b; must have it, or my machine will flare off!!
' - but you can wait a couple of days, or even a few months with a major upgrade, wait until the flaws are ironed out, and can see what the forums provide, read the official announcements, then you know what comes, and needs to be done to not hit an iceberg but doing it the right way in the first place.
FreeBSD: I never experienced a more rock-solid and less tinkering OS like this one. (Well, Amiga OS was also alike. But an OS from the late 1980s is hardly comparable with what needs we have today.)
If FreeBSD means tinkering, then you either doing it wrong somehow, or you're experimenting. Then you'd better know why you do it and how to handle it, but that's for sure not FreeBSD's fault if it runs not smoothly then.
Who wants to know how to do it right:
Handbook, forums. It's all in [t]here.
Just stick to it, and FreeBSD just worx reliably, rock solid.
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