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Why do people use or ? I really love but it pretty much has everyone I want now. Isn’t that not true at all for BSD?

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mikael@hachyderm.io

Mikael Hansson

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@oceanhaiyang the BSDs are a throwback to a more ”unixy” way of working compared to how Linux has evolved. They’re backed by smaller groups with less resources, and that’s sometimes apparent in hardware support, software porting speed, and of course the inability to run software that’s dependent on a systemd-centric paradigm rather than a posix one.

Overall, I really enjoy the BSDs, and/but (depending on your perspective) they tend to require you to understand your system a bit better than a mainstream Linux distro does to get proper use of them.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@mikael @oceanhaiyang in some ways more but also, in some ways less (given less layers of complexity)
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@mikael @oceanhaiyang Also *BSD does have commercial appeal. E.g. consider Apple and Netflix as examples of this.
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@mikael @oceanhaiyang Being a long-time involved with Linux kernel I tend to see positive in other creations and negative in my own sandbox :-) I think it is (mentally) healthy of course :-)
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