Why did you stopped using FreeBSD ?

The thread title assumes facts not in evidence :)
I have not stopped using FreeBSD as my daily driver system at home, I buy hardware suitable for it as in "I do my research"; I remember a lot of thought going into my first 64bit system (I watched the threads about what people were finding compatible during the big 32 bit to 64 bit transitition).
Easiest way to do this for desktops is "1 generation back from latest, max it with RAM, give it a good power supply" and a system will run for a long time as long as you blow out the dust once in a bit.

If $WORK supplies a Linux system I use that for work, but since work from home it's boot the Linux system and ssh in from FreeBSD so I can work on a full size keyboard and monitor (I detest laptop ergonomics for anything longer than 47 minutes of use).
 
I have not stopped using FreeBSD and I don't think I will do that unless something changes drastically in how FreeBSD installs and works. However, I have to use windows and some windows programs for work and I do that in a virtual machine.
 
Alain De Vos : FreeBSD has plenty of text editors in ports, and Kate definitely has support for F# (Fsharp) and Scala. Why are you so hung up on VSCode? KDE offers KDevelop. It may take time to learn, but it's a very reasonable equivalent (in terms of features) to VSCode that is actually in ports... If you don't like KDE, there's plenty of other alternatives in ports. Sometimes, you just gotta ask, and be willing to try. Well, you can always try Emacs, that is definitely in ports (editors/emacs), definitely supports F#, Scala, and can keep you plenty busy ;)

editors/kate has my direct endorsement as a recommendation, editors/emacs is simply something else that I happen to know about that also checks the language support boxes.

As for the topic of this thread: I have a laptop where I was unable to install FreeBSD because of a weird N-key keyboard. I even have a thread about that (Thread installing-13-0-release-on-a-new-laptop.84302). After a while, I just did my homework and bought a laptop that actually works with FreeBSD, a Lenovo Thinkbook 14 G4. I'm using it right now to write this post, it's got 14.2-RELEASE, and everything is compiled from ports, from ground up.

Back in 2003/2004, I tried to install FreeBSD, and backed off because I could not get Xorg going reliably. Came back in 2017, and saw that the Xorg matter was finally cleaned up. Ultimately, ZFS is what won me over, and now, FreeBSD is my daily driver thanks to working, up-to-date Firefox. Everything else - I can live with what FreeBSD has to offer, and it's not bad at all, I see no reason to look around. It would take something that impressed me to the same extent that ZFS did in 2017.
 
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Editors: are we really talking about editors or "IDEs" that do everything? I think of things like vscode as a IDE: editor plus all kinds of other things.

Emacs can be configured to do a heck of a lot; language specific syntax things, "make"/build so what do things like vscode/eclipse really give you above simple code editing?
 
I stopped using FreeBSD in RPi2 (can't remember the exact version) when upgrading of system and ports started to become increasingly difficult due to compilation times for ARM in x86 machines.
I used this RPi to monitor energy usage, temperature and also to control our sprinklers.

So, I changed the RPi to a Lenovo Tiny and installed AMD64 FreeBSD and the rest is history...
 
drr said:
Kate is one of the best text editors that I have used. My use is mostly around data analysis and I gave up python and R IDEs after I started using Kate. The integrated console is very convenient to run the code and I typically send the output to files, so I am not missing anything by abandoning IDEs.
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KATE is my favorite as well.
 
I'll be the odd duck... 'cuz I'm a windows developer lurking here...
I never stopped using FBSD as it powers my NAS.
Same as my old 1991 Toyota truck.. turn the key, it runs as it should.
Every time.
 
All discussions of editors are dumb. Vim (full-stop, you're done. glad I could help). And, since life is a bit boring at the moment--because apparently, my server running FBSD refuses to take any stance other than "rock solid" and misbehave in any way *sigh*--Emacs sucks (let's see if we can't resurrect that old editor war)!
 
ralphbsz said:
I find it very strange to give up on an important thing (OS) because of a minor thing (editor). Software engineers typically spend a relatively small fraction of their time actually editing code; the bulk is spent designing, testing, meeting with people, reading and writing documentation, and so on.
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Most time is spent either in front of an editor or in front of a Web-Browser. At least in my case.

The editor is less a problem, vi + emacs are enough.

The browser is the biggest problem.
 
JohnK said:
All discussions of editors are dumb.
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I think, the problem is the learn curve with vi and emacs, the time to get used, to get aware of their power or deficiencies.

Also perhaps that people are unwilling to use other tools, for example make.
They prefer an IDE with all kind of features embedded it it.

But I cannot really speak, never used an IDE.
 
Well, another problem is browsing code, especially for object-oriented programs and libraries. Vim and emacs are not really up to the level of some windowsy editors.

ETA: unless you use Lisp, which you should do in the first place
 
JohnK said:
All discussions of editors are dumb. Vim (full-stop, you're done. glad I could help). And, since life is a bit boring at the moment--because apparently, my server running FBSD refuses to take any stance other than "rock solid" and misbehave in any way *sigh*--Emacs sucks (let's see if we can't resurrect that old editor war)!
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For me, frankly, software with useful features is more important than the underlying OS. One reason I use FreeBSD is because it runs KDE, same as Linux. Claims of higher performance and reliability than Linux got me to take a look at FreeBSD. Realizing that it also runs KDE and virtually anything that's available on Linux - that got me motivated to try and install FreeBSD. Realizing that FreeBSD has OS-specific tools that are well-documented and make software installation easier to understand and practice - that got me warmed up to FreeBSD. ZFS back in 2017 was what gave me the final push, and got me to decide to stick with FreeBSD.

If not for ZFS, FreeBSD would be just another stop in my distro-hopping. FreeBSD boots a little different than Linux, manages software a little different than Linux, supports hardware a little different than Linux... but as they say, the devil is in the details.
 
Oh, I know, I was just trying to be funny (while delivering a vailed compliment to FBSD stability). It was just a joke (you should use the editor that makes you happy because you tend to spend more time in your editor than you do with your family).
 
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