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It has been many years since I used NetBSD as a daily driver, but it was (and I trust it stills is) an incredible operating system. That said, there is a major
by II2II 6y ago
It has been many years since I used NetBSD as a daily driver, but it was (and I trust it stills is) an incredible operating system.
That said, there is a major drawback in a modern context. A lot of modern software assumes a mainstream Linux system. While the ports collection will handle the patches and dependencies, much of the lean, cohesive, and traditional feel of NetBSD disappears as soon as you start pulling in those applications (e.g. an up-to-date web browser). Users of mainstream Linux distributions will also find that there are a lot of skills to relearn with respect to system management, or at least recall from earlier days.
- samoa42 6y ago> there is a major drawback in a modern context have been using it as a daily driver for a few years around 2005 and concur that there is a integration moat with software that is intended for linux (modern or not) and i guess systemd made that problem worse. the fact that i runs most linuxish software while beeing not a linux is usefull thou and, if one is inclined to, can learn a lot about systems engineering.
- rjsw 6y agoLatest Firefox builds fine on NetBSD without things like PulseAudio and D-Bus, it still feels like a traditional application to me.