I Did It – I Switched to FreeBSD(kozume.neocities.org)
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I Did It – I Switched to FreeBSD
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I love FreeBSD and use it everywhere on the server/device side. But for a regular desktop, and especially laptop, is it ready yet? Last I tried it had no Wifi5 for a regular Intel card and I couldn't grok around it. As for things like hibernate it was common to just laugh sarcastically when anyone asked about it on the forums. Have things changed? But frankly I don't care. Who cares about desktop? Windows is fine. For many people even Android / ChromeOS is fine.
Windiws is anything but fine. WSL is a direct admission of that. Don't waste your life using subpar tools, switch to a proper, user respecting OS.
Author should learn CSS next
Well, good for you. Great that you found an OS that you enjoy.
Is there anything else to add?
Is there anything else to add?
Sadly I cannot read this website on mobile (safari on an iPhone mini), both margins are cutting a few characters.
It would help if the text wasn't truncated on mobile. How does one even break HTML text reflow? One has to do it on purpose, or choose to design a website in 2023 with Dreamviewer.
> the obligation to run the absolute latest versions of every base element of your system and update every week if you don't want to spend entire days trying to fix your installation in Arch and everything in between
It's kinda the point of a rolling release distro like Arch. More mainstream distributions don't have this drawback. I've upgraded old Debian and Ubuntu (-based) systems through several versions, and while it's slow and it's a pain to see the process sequentially upgrade stuff to old versions, and then less old, etc and doing what looks like useless work, it didn't take entire days and it was not broken. This painful process is what makes this work, because it only takes tested upgrade paths instead of upgrading packages from a random version to another random version, for the whole system.
With a rolling distribution, you'd better update often, or you lose all the advantages of it and you are better off with a non-rolling distro built on a stable basis.
(If you are spending entire days fixing Linux desktop, you are probably better off reinstalling from scratch.)
openSUSE Tumbleweed is an interesting option with this respect: rolling release but with a stability and polish close to mainstream distributions and many more things in the main repositories. I've been running it since 2018, I trust it, and would expect less frequent updates to work fine.
> Python-unfriendliness (when it comes to desktop usage anyway) of the Debian family
What is this Python-unfriendliness of Debian about?
Anyway, I understand that the author sees issues with all the distributions they tried and that's the intent of these remarks. In any case, it is great to see people running BSD distributions on the desktop. The only reason I have never considered trying is the lack of hardware support for stuff I use. I'd be otherwise interested, and having more free OSes usable on the desktop can only strengthen the ecosystem (I'm happy with Linux though).
It's kinda the point of a rolling release distro like Arch. More mainstream distributions don't have this drawback. I've upgraded old Debian and Ubuntu (-based) systems through several versions, and while it's slow and it's a pain to see the process sequentially upgrade stuff to old versions, and then less old, etc and doing what looks like useless work, it didn't take entire days and it was not broken. This painful process is what makes this work, because it only takes tested upgrade paths instead of upgrading packages from a random version to another random version, for the whole system.
With a rolling distribution, you'd better update often, or you lose all the advantages of it and you are better off with a non-rolling distro built on a stable basis.
(If you are spending entire days fixing Linux desktop, you are probably better off reinstalling from scratch.)
openSUSE Tumbleweed is an interesting option with this respect: rolling release but with a stability and polish close to mainstream distributions and many more things in the main repositories. I've been running it since 2018, I trust it, and would expect less frequent updates to work fine.
> Python-unfriendliness (when it comes to desktop usage anyway) of the Debian family
What is this Python-unfriendliness of Debian about?
Anyway, I understand that the author sees issues with all the distributions they tried and that's the intent of these remarks. In any case, it is great to see people running BSD distributions on the desktop. The only reason I have never considered trying is the lack of hardware support for stuff I use. I'd be otherwise interested, and having more free OSes usable on the desktop can only strengthen the ecosystem (I'm happy with Linux though).