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Reason for my switch was that some key things (for me) were designed in a way that seemed more right that on linux and this is totally subjective opinion. I am

by stiray 5y ago

Reason for my switch was that some key things (for me) were designed in a way that seemed more right that on linux and this is totally subjective opinion. I am still running ubuntu on laptop and will switch when the next install is a thing, but I am running freebsd on server for years now and while i tremble on each update for the laptop, I dont for freebsd, even when updating from 12.x to 13.x. Based on years of experience on both operating systems. I was surprised only once when freebsd made change where the base network settings weren't by default copied into fibs (you wont encounter this... probably ever) and even then I needed an hour to figure what the change was. On the other side, I no longer count the nasty surprises the linux distributions played on me (like /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten by systemd resolv, just as trivial change). My laptop is unbootable for a year as they messed something regarding the order of zpool import (bpool being imported before rpool - probably a race condition) so i have to import it manually or it doesnt boot, while I have freebsd zfs root for ~10 years and it never failed me. Details like that made me insecure about linux. And on the other side, made me highly secure about freebsd. I think that (again, this is subjective, speaking only for myself)... I... trust... BSD... guys. Based on experience. I... dont trust linux... distributions. Based on experience. But it might just be me.

dijit 5y ago
Not to be that guy, but your Linux complaints sound like systemd complaints. Not sure the teething process has finished there, but I share the sentiment.
- stiray 5y ago
  Naah, systemd is not bothering me at all, i dont have issues if they change the way how resolve information is stored. What bothers me that the old way is still there (/etc/resolv.conf) while it is being generated by systemd. I can accept the change where the dns information is stored. Fine, it is no longer the same file, I dont care. While on the other side, if I get parallel mechanism, that is keeping the old, this is really an annoyance. That is hard to identify. The ZFS has nothing to do with systemd and I havent even touched stuff like jails/lxc, byhve/kvm, memory consumption, quality of code,... as I have said it, it is subjective and it is about trust into operating system. Linux distributions dont have it. They blew it just too many times. BSD didnt. It is hard to be objective there, just try the BSD. And please do report your findings.

by stiray 5y ago

dijit 5y ago

Not to be that guy, but your Linux complaints sound like systemd complaints. Not sure the teething process has finished there, but I share the sentiment.

stiray 5y ago
Naah, systemd is not bothering me at all, i dont have issues if they change the way how resolve information is stored. What bothers me that the old way is still there (/etc/resolv.conf) while it is being generated by systemd. I can accept the change where the dns information is stored. Fine, it is no longer the same file, I dont care. While on the other side, if I get parallel mechanism, that is keeping the old, this is really an annoyance. That is hard to identify. The ZFS has nothing to do with systemd and I havent even touched stuff like jails/lxc, byhve/kvm, memory consumption, quality of code,... as I have said it, it is subjective and it is about trust into operating system. Linux distributions dont have it. They blew it just too many times. BSD didnt. It is hard to be objective there, just try the BSD. And please do report your findings.