Whilst BSD isn’t linux per se, it still has a lasting legacy in the unix like space and notably has been used in game consoles like the PS4.

For you in your personal use case, have you tried a bsd distro? What was better compared to the average linux distro?

Apparently BSD is more modular with its jailing system and seems to have a lower resource usage.

I look at ones like NETBSD and FreeBSD and think, "what exactly do I get out of them that I wouldn’t with Linux say, Ubuntu or Void as an example?

What are your thoughts on BSD, you use FreeBSD before?

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    I tried FreeBSD on a laptop.
    It spammed error messages all over the installer’s TUI until I disabled my fingerprint reader in BIOS.
    Then I had to patch and recompile the kernel to get it to talk to my laptop’s battery sensor.
    Then there were half a dozen other issues I solved one by one, like getting the touchpad and the camera to work, and auto-detecting my networked printer/scanner.
    Then I read up on why WiFi is so unbearably slow, and the solution was to pass-through a WiFi driver from inside a Linux VM.

    I didn’t actually notice any end-user advantage of having a “fully integrated system” either, so I gave up and went back to Linux.

    • Dotcom@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’ve not used BSD, but this is cracking me up because this reads like the “Linux Sucks back to Windows” threads from 10 years ago.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’ve used Linux for 20 years now, and yes the experience was similar to back then.
        But back then, there wasn’t a better FOSS option. Now there’s modern Linux.
        Don’t get me wrong, I think BSD is a great system. It’s just not the right OS for a new-ish convertible laptop.