Whilst BSD isn’t linux per se, it still has a lasting legacy in the unix like space and notably has been used in game consoles like the PS4.

For you in your personal use case, have you tried a bsd distro? What was better compared to the average linux distro?

Apparently BSD is more modular with its jailing system and seems to have a lower resource usage.

I look at ones like NETBSD and FreeBSD and think, "what exactly do I get out of them that I wouldn’t with Linux say, Ubuntu or Void as an example?

What are your thoughts on BSD, you use FreeBSD before?

  • MostRandomGuy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    I use OpenBSD as my daily driver on the desktop.

    In my opinion Linux over the years got too caught up in politics and involved with big corporations having influence on certain non-trivial decisions.

    But I also think the BSDs are better actual Operating Systems in contrast to Linux being only the kernel of which different projects make use of to provide their final products to the end user, its way more fractured.

    • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      27·
      2 months ago

      Using a security focused Distro which has its use case in network devices as a “daily driver” shows that you priorities are “elsewhere”.

      • MostRandomGuy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        51·
        2 months ago

        You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. OpenBSD is an absolutely legitimate Desktop OS and has no special use case. Its hardened and comparably slower than Net- and FreeBSD, but thats it . Guess you’re an “expert”.

        • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          32·
          2 months ago

          has no special use case. Its hardened and comparably slower than Net- and FreeBSD

          😂

          • MostRandomGuy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            Thats when you’re out of arguments, ladies and gentlemen.

            The equivalent of facebook boomers reacting with a laugh emoji.

            But seriously: several people in the BSD community use OpenBSD on the Desktop, Theo De Raadt also does in contrast to a lot of FreeBSD devs that use MacOS as a daily driver.

            Don’t know why you’re so full of yourself when you clearly have no expertise on the subject.