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> As a fedora user, why would I consider FreeBSD? The vid talks about how big Linux vendor, like Red Hat, betrayed the Linux community (their words, not mine).
by TacticalCoder 2y ago
> As a fedora user, why would I consider FreeBSD?
The vid talks about how big Linux vendor, like Red Hat, betrayed the Linux community (their words, not mine).
If you're fine with the "microsoftization" of Linux, then you're all good and set with Fedora or Ubuntu.
For many users Linux is just "Windows but sucking a bit less than Windows".
But others do feel the betrayal they talk about in the vid. For me for example systemd and systemd's author now officially being on Microsoft' payroll is a very hard pill to swallow. Same for many non-portable things now targeting only the bastardized Linux ecosystem, instead of targeting all the Unixes still out there (including FreeBSD and OpenBSD).
Thankfully due to the unfathomably big number of Linux containers / virtual machines being spun on and off and the need for utmost speed of these, systemd ain't much of a thing in the Linux container world. And Linux is still the kernel and it's still possible to have both systemd-less containers and systemd-less distros. I'm not sure how long that'll last though seen how systemd is spreading its tentacles everywhere.
For people who love Microsoft INI files and who love the rube-goldberg monstrosity that Windows is, systemd Linux distros with snap and whatnots are just fine. To them Linux is just basically a Windows a tiny bit more secure and crashing a tiny bit less. And don't worry: Microsoft employees are hard at work making sure Linux gets shittier by the day, emulating the mistakes of the biggest turd of an OS ever made (that'd be Windows).
For others, thankfully the BSDs do still exists.
- myaccountonhn 2y agoThere’s also Void, Alpine and Guix if you don’t want to use systemd. What I personally really like about the BSDs are that they are very hackable with great documentation. The code base is much smaller and building your own kernel is very straightforward. I was able to even fix some of my own drivers and learnt a ton in the process.
- bch 2y ago> There’s also Void [...] Started[0] by NetBSDs (and Hacker News') own jmmv[1]. So if you're getting BSD vibes, now you know why. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Linux?#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Linux?#History [1] https://jmmv.dev/software/netbsd.html https://jmmv.dev/software/netbsd.html
- homebrewer 2y agoYou're unlikely to convert anyone with that kind of attitude and these massive exaggerations, which are obvious to anyone who knows their linuxen. Some BSD advocates are like sandpaper, unfortunately, which is not helping the OSes, which often get defined in terms of what they're not.
- Rotundo 2y agoUnlikely to convert anyone, but they are not wrong either. I don't use BSD, but as a long time user of Linux (started with Yggdrasil) I can't help but think Linux is slowly but surely getting sabotaged. Systemd, Wayland, Pulseaudio, it is all needlessly complicated and introduces dependencies in other software that shouldn't be there. Maybe I _should_ take a good look at the BSD's after all.
- nolist_policy 2y agoGo pair a Bluetooth headset with your Machine, then we can talk about needless complexities.