Why FreeBSD, if I may..

A year ago I was only familiar with Ubuntu, and maybe it was my fault for being too lazy to learn anything else. However, about a year ago I noticed that I started having problems after upgrading my system, so I decided to give it the heave ho. At that time I just wanted a reliable operating system that wouldn't break every other day, so I decided to give FreeBSD a try. I admit, I kinda jumped int the deep end of the swimming pool without knowing how to swim very well, but eventually I made it through my cry-baby phase, and now I'm able to use FreeBSD relatively well on my own. Incidentally, I have two older HP laptops which I know have Devuan Linux running on, and this works out well because Devuan with Xfce is so friendly that almost anyone can use it.
 
Cedric62 said:
A year ago I was only familiar with Ubuntu, and maybe it was my fault for being too lazy to learn anything else. However, about a year ago I noticed that I started having problems after upgrading my system, so I decided to give it the heave ho. At that time I just wanted a reliable operating system that wouldn't break every other day, so I decided to give FreeBSD a try. I admit, I kinda jumped int the deep end of the swimming pool without knowing how to swim very well, but eventually I made it through my cry-baby phase, and now I'm able to use FreeBSD relatively well on my own. Incidentally, I have two older HP laptops which I know have Devuan Linux running on, and this works out well because Devuan with Xfce is so friendly that almost anyone can use it.
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Whenever you have to figure it out, it's for the better..
 
Server:
  • UNIX compliance - minimalism -> a little bit more secure, more stable and transparent.
  • pf
  • zfs
  • jails
  • License
  • Support - SUSE, CentOS crapped out on me. And Ubuntu is gonna.

Desktop:
I am getting there. So far I always encountered some HW specific problem (usb passthrough, CUDA, VR).
But I would switch for reasons above plus:
  • zfs - Home directory encryption - it is getting there (I made How to, here). eCryptfs (used only by Linux Mint) is legacy/unsupported and probably unsafe.
  • jails - this would be great for sandboxing apps.
 
DanielBowman said:
Server:
  • UNIX compliance - minimalism -> a little bit more secure, more stable and transparent.
  • pf
  • zfs
  • jails
  • License
  • Support - SUSE, CentOS crapped out on me. And Ubuntu is gonna.

Desktop:
I am getting there. So far I always encountered some HW specific problem (usb passthrough, CUDA, VR).
But I would switch for reasons above plus:
  • zfs - Home directory encryption - it is getting there (I made How to, here). eCryptfs (used only by Linux Mint) is legacy/unsupported and probably unsafe.
  • jails - this would be great for sandboxing apps.
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UNIX compliance - minimalism sounds so good
 
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