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I honestly dont think there's any other operating system in the universe that will have the same level of hardware makes support as Windows does, especially whe
by tachion 12y ago
I honestly dont think there's any other operating system in the universe that will have the same level of hardware makes support as Windows does, especially when it comes to desktop targeted hardware.
You have to be aware that neither Linux nor FreeBSD were developed with desktop usage as a primary goal, so the drivers support focuses more on hardware related to professional usage.
However, you can still use FreeBSD on the desktop/laptop if you pay some attention to what you're buying, and there is great FreeBSD distro called PC-BSD[1] dedicated to desktop users as well!
Answering your question in one word: comparable.
[1] http://www.pcbsd.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/
- hiphopyo 12y agoIf you care about security, note that OpenBSD lets you run Xorg as non-root: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426
- adestefan 12y agoX.org 1.16 running with systemd and most drivers allow non-root execution in Linux now, too. This is the default on Arch Linux unless the driver dies not support it.
- gonzo 12y agoIf you care about security, you'll know that OpenBSD has some fairly transparent claims. If you're merely in the OpenBSD camp, you'll think that security is the "focus" of OpenBSD.