this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
375 points (97.0% liked)

linuxmemes

19857 readers
261 users here now

I use Arch btw

Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Linuxmemed@lemmy.world
poopsmith@lemmy.world
Geert@lemmy.world
375
Is there anyone here who uses BSD on their desktop? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by Waffelson@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
60 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Thorgs@feddit.de 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

From my little experience with working on BSD Servers, BSD is very reliable and for my use cases fast enough. But the slower updates and lack of most Wi-Fi support and sometimes spotty hardware support combined with the need for porting a lot of Linux software that dose not natively run on BSD is a deal breaker for using BSD on my Main Desktop Computer.

TLDR: For me BSD is a powerful tool that has a very specific job that is not being a Desktop Computer.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yep, it is for Sony PlayStations.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

The end user has no way of knowing or changing that so it doesn't matter

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

In juniper networking hardware. And many others. If you have the capability to create what's missing (drivers etc) it will work well. If you do not, well, there's shit tons of drivers for Linux.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Caveat: unless it is Mac OSX. There are... issues there, but it is still a fairly great experience, objectively speaking.

[–] suzune@ani.social 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

(Oops... wrong thread, I'll leave it here)

I've been using FreeBSD for 20 years on my desktop. I've been also mainly using it because I was literally afraid of using Linux filesystems for data storage, when I learned how ZFS works.

Now with bcachefs the situation is different. It's nice to see an advanced filesystem on Linux, even it's still beta. I migrated my desktop to Linux, but will keep FreeBSD on my servers for a while, because it's less hassle for me.

Actually I stopped liking the FreeBSD community. They made a lot of drama in the past years and I stopped being active there. I haven't reported bugs anymore and fixed them privately or reported directly to upstream. I have many nice things running on servers, but I'm thinking about moving to Debian entirely.