Why FreeBSD, if I may..

sidetone said:
The importance of ZFS is data preservation
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It is also important for ensuring that the binaries that you load into memory from the file system don't contain any errors. ZFS is very good at dealing with bit rot and with data loss when in a mirror or RAID configuration. Regular use of Scrub refreshes seldom used files on SSDs that makes sure the files are still there when you need them. Machines with SSDs that are not powered up and accessed regularly can lose data.

Boot Environments and automated snapshots make recovering from a bad software install, ransomware attack or silly mistake, a non issue. If you are not using ZFS on your OS drive then you are missing these worthwhile benefits.
 
msplsh said:
I can appreciate a pile of hacks that can get stuff done (and maybe overhaul the hacks one or five 🤪 times until they are not very hacky), with Linux, but, also, I appreciate "ok, well, what if we took a bit to figure this out." Unfortunately most people accept the former as enough.
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Much obliged..
 
I can find things in FreeBSD. And I don't just mean source code in the kernel or base user system.

If I want to look at some application source code I just cd to the port and say `make patch`. And not only that, I can choose between FreeBSD-patched and pre patched.
 
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