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I'm a Linux user who has never used BSD. I'm not attached to Linux specifically, but it's still hard to imagine switching. It just feels like whatever motivatio
by __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
I'm a Linux user who has never used BSD. I'm not attached to Linux specifically, but it's still hard to imagine switching. It just feels like whatever motivations might exist to switch are at the wrong layer.
It's easy to imagine trying a new flavor of ice cream, but switching to BSD is more like trying a new brand of spoon.
These days I'm a Linux user mostly because it's the best place to use nix. So along those lines if BSD wants new users then I think it should start by attracting the kind of user who is going to do something noteworthy with it. Be the foundation for an attraction, don't try to be the attraction.
I'm not sure what that'll be specifically, but it's probably currently the ambition of someone who is a die hard BSD user who needs help bringing BSD with them to someplace cool and not the casual preference of somebody looking for a place to write hello world.
- EasyMark 2y agoIf you like desktop unix it’s also hard to go wrong with macOS as well.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI have to use it for work and I disagree. It's a step up from Windows, but you're still in an experience crafted by a huge company with goals that you might not agree with. For instance you need a third party app to prevent your screen from sleeping I guess because Apple needs a third party to blame for when doing so reduces your battery life? Plus the window manager is awful and all of the third party apps that improve it are gimped by Apple's limited API (they can arrange windows spatially but they can't move focus spatially, i3-style). If you're going to bother climbing out of the corporate control labyrinth you might as well go all the way and pick something community maintained.