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There's not being modern, and then there's not chasing every rabbit down every hole. Right now I feel like FreeBSD is a wonderful mix of advanced, modern tech
by badsock 11y ago
There's not being modern, and then there's not chasing every rabbit down every hole. Right now I feel like FreeBSD is a wonderful mix of advanced, modern tech like ZFS and bhyve, married with an absence of "oooo-shiny!" misadventures like PulseAudio and systemd.
And in particular, right now I'm grateful that the BSDs are small enough to be ignored by the herds of people migrating away from Windows and bringing their mindsets with them - that all seems to be landing on Linux.
- digi_owl 11y agoI wonder how much the reason they are landing on Linux is that there are multiple companies actively trying to pitch Linux to existing Windows users. RH for instance seems to be heavily pitching RHEL (never mind Fedora and CentOS) towards corporate and the Military-Industrial complex. The latter in particular are interested in RHEL after some poor experience using Windows on warships and similar. But at the same time there is a pile of MSCEs running around in these organizations, and so there is a incentive to make daily Linux management at least superficially similar to reduce retraining costs.