Soooo I tried #ghostbsd because I hear all these amazing things about #bsd and I don't get it.
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@codemonkeymike What was extremely less usable.
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@markstos I mean mate is meh, was using quite a bit of resources, it was a.thinkpad 460s and brightness control didn't work. WiFi was confusing and buggy.
Software availability is tiny compared to Linux.
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@codemonkeymike What I really liked BSD for was as a web server. I think you are right about worse laptop support and less software.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Mark Stosberg last edited by
@markstos @codemonkeymike BSD was a double edged sword for me for a web server. You can build something with crazy good uptime but maintaining the web stack itself on BSD was very much less fun and I inherited a number of environments where they just hadn't been maintained for years and stuff like openssl couldn't be updated for fear of breaking everything else.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 last edited by
@markstos @codemonkeymike I did enjoy running it on a higher end laptop and doing so forced me to learn how a number of things actually work. The reason I gave up on FreeBSD wasn't that I didn't like it, but I wanted to spend more time actually using my devices and less time trying to update them and fixing stuff leftover from a broken ports thing somewhere.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Mike :nixos: last edited by
@codemonkeymike You're not wrong. I remember having to recompile a FreeBSD kernel just to get sound enabled when I ran it - that was on top of compiling alsa, OSS, etc.