As much as I love FreeBSD, it has its rough edges when it comes to daily use. And an upgrade, while much smoother than it used to be in the "make buildkernel; make buildworld" times, is still lacking and can break the system.
The saddest is that FreeBSD is massively underfunded. They still manage to do great stuff, make massive improvements. If the big corporations like Apple, who made billions on FreeBSD, could just return a couple millions in donations to the FreeBSD Foundation on a yearly basis, which for them would be less than a rounding error, the OS would be in a vastly different place now. But their corporate greed knows no bounds.
ThePowerOfFuet 7 hours ago [-]
I hope you're prepared to build Electron apps from source, because they are absolutely not reliably available from the ports tree.
>While working with networking stuff, I deployed OpenBSD and FreeBSD machines for routing, security and email serving. I was always in awe that I could just do stuff easily. You want to do something at boot time? There is a script that gets run at boot time; put whatever you want in it.
Linux has this too, it's called Devuan. 90% of the reasons you'd want to move from Linux to BSD can be addressed by getting rid of everything associated with FreeDesktop.org.
kasabali 3 hours ago [-]
You must accept the cold hard truth that you can't get rid of freedesktop.org unless you move to MacOS os Windows. Even *bsd s are infected with it the moment you want to do anything desktop-y with them.
ksk23 8 hours ago [-]
Or use systemd, like a sane person.
BSDobelix 6 hours ago [-]
>like a sane person.
But not for long, that's the whole point of not using systemd.
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The saddest is that FreeBSD is massively underfunded. They still manage to do great stuff, make massive improvements. If the big corporations like Apple, who made billions on FreeBSD, could just return a couple millions in donations to the FreeBSD Foundation on a yearly basis, which for them would be less than a rounding error, the OS would be in a vastly different place now. But their corporate greed knows no bounds.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270565
Linux has this too, it's called Devuan. 90% of the reasons you'd want to move from Linux to BSD can be addressed by getting rid of everything associated with FreeDesktop.org.
But not for long, that's the whole point of not using systemd.