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Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

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[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The year of the netbsd desktop is finally here.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

what's the bsd equivalent to arch

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think BSD is the BSD equivalent to arch.

[–] elvith@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

"I'm using netBSD btw...."

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah isn't Arch heavily inspired by the BSD way?

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

OpenBSD, probably

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Is it still maintained ? I'd probably go with FreeBSD if I'm switching to BSD at all. It has ZFS out of the box and has support for nvidia's non opensource driver. I have used it as a desktop OS for a good 3 months, it was pretty good (even though I couldn't game on it)

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
  • The year of Linux desktop finally arrives
  • Linus dies
  • Me: installs NetBSD and waits