This The thing I dislike about this kind of article is that they contain enumerations of relatively small deltas between systems. Things that you can bicker ov

This The thing I dislike about this kind of article is that they contain enumerations of relatively small deltas between systems. Things that you can bicker over for hours ("look, FreeBSD has better ZFS support", "but FreeBSD is actually rebasing on ZFS on Linux"). But they do not matter that much in the end. FreeBSD does not provide any meaningful changes compared to Linux that will convince most Linux users; and vice versa. These discussions usually boil down to some form of tribalism. For me the excitement is in projects that radically change FLOSS systems, addressing their shortcomings. For example: - Docker, despite its shortcomings, drastically changed how software is deployed in most companies (most FreeBSD folks don't seem to get this, it's not about "we had jails earlier", it's all about the ease of packaging/deployment). - Nix and Guix completely change package management, by treating packages as values built by pure functions. Allowing using several (isolated) versions of packages in parallel, reproducibility, per-project environments, fully declarative system configuration, atomic upgrades/rollbacks. - Fedora Silverblue takes Fedora, but changes it to a stacking of OSTree snapshots, providing a largely read-only root filesystem, with atomic upgrades and rollbacks. Applications are installed through Flatpak. Development is done through rootless containers with Podman. Not all of these projects and ideas may end up being adopted industry-wide, but they explore exiting new directions in packaging, system management, etc. Which to me is far more interesting than bickering over which kernel is slightly better in which use case, or separation between a base system and third-party ports which don't solve the 99 problems in packaging that actually matter (such as: this old project needs an ancient Boost version and in my 'global FHS namespace' package manager having two versions of Boost is conflicting). I am currently using NixOS and Nix on Mac, but I am also actively tracking Guix and Silverblue because these projects are so damn exciting.