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Seeing this kind of attitude in the Linux community saddens me. We should remember that Linux too has been small, and incomplete, and difficult— and it still is
by pxc 2y ago
Seeing this kind of attitude in the Linux community saddens me. We should remember that Linux too has been small, and incomplete, and difficult— and it still is at least some of those things within the wider desktop world. So are a great many Linux distros, including fabulous ones that should not be overlooked.
I hope that the Linux community will long retain at least some echo of that exploratory spirit, and extend that to projects like FreeBSD.
- grakker 2y agoI tried FreeBSD for a few months about 15 years ago. I liked it. Clean filesystem and just "felt" better on a few levels. But the reason I started using Linux 25 years ago was 100% for the philosophy of the GPL and because of that, I never felt comfortable with myself using FreeBSD. I have suggested it to many people over the years, I think it's a great OS, just not for me.
- loeg 2y ago> I hope that the Linux community will long retain at least some echo of that exploratory spirit, and extend that to projects like FreeBSD. In that exploratory spirit, I ran FreeBSD for years. It has a number of every-day shortcomings compared to Linux. If Linux users want to be annoyed and inconvenienced regularly in the spirit of exploration, sure, they can give it a shot.