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As a very generic and simple computer person, BSD was off the table for me the moment I had to bother with the terminal to install it with a gui environment. Un
by MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago
As a very generic and simple computer person, BSD was off the table for me the moment I had to bother with the terminal to install it with a gui environment. Unlike Linux, BSD has a high barrier to entry similar to arch. And frankly, work, school, and social life take priority over learning how to install an OS that requires more maintenance and messing around to get things to work than even an unstable Linux distro.
I really do like the idea of BSD and have several major OS choices, but honestly Linux seems to be the solution for most "third way" OS problems until programming a new OS becomes common like 100+ years down the road. BSD just failed where Linux succeeded in being able to easily pull in the lazy nerds like me. Short of a basic terminal command and simple troubleshooting of course. BSD is like arch level of difficulty and maintenance and I don't care for it. Also it's kind of ironic that he bashes macOS when historically it's the successor of BSD. What it gets right, this guy complains about. It's simple, I don't need to worry about any of the issues he mentioned, and it's reliable. The reason other BSDs aren't is because you have to waste time making you're system work first before you can do anything else unlike almost every other major OS.
- pwdisswordfish8 5y ago> I really do like the idea of BSD What do you consider to be the idea of BSD?
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoJust another supported operating system. I think it's good that we have somewhat of a variety so that it's not just the big 3. I'd really hate to see an MS and OSX only market 40 years from now.