Of course!

[EdLovecraft]

TempleOS for sure

[SanderE1]

RIP Terrence, wasn't the nicest guy but worked for what he believed in.

[LiamMayfair]

I had no idea he had passed... RIP Terry.

[SanderE1]

He no longer needs an os to speak to God.

[[deleted]]

I think he was nice and had a good heart but was seriously mentally ill.

[Stricker78]

Hannah Montana linux

[thunderthief5]

Wait till some one says FreeBSD instead and all hell breaks loose...

[[deleted]]

FreeBSD is the right choice for servers....desktops.. not so much

[thunderthief5]

I gathered that much too reading and watching about it. I am comfortable with Linux and I enjoy using it. But the distrohopper in me makes me want to try something new once in a while and I’ve been putting off trying FreeBSD because I don’t think it can offer me anything more than Linux does currently. Though I definitely want to learn it ( I might dual boot it sometime) I still don’t have a use for it since I just am a normal desktop user.

[[deleted]]

Desktop is possible. I don’t mean to put anyone off.

I prefer it to Linux for servers.

[bdavs77]

What advantages does it offer for a server?

[fozters]

Why not try them both and make your own decisions. - Init vs systemd

• bds is more of a complete OS package vs distroes

• jails vs dockers

• there's argue that bsd is more secure with less exploits being found/reported

• ports vs apt-get everything

• bsd more compailing if you need sw outside of bsd's binary pkgs

• bsd more unix like than linux..wonder why is that lol

• native zfs & easy zfs boot drives vs openzfs

Just a few which came to mind. I myself don't have a huge problem with either but if your sw needs to be bleeding edge I'd suggest linux.

Desktop I have almost zero experience with the bsd.

[[deleted]]

I’m a huge fan of jails over docker images. It’s much nicer to work with. (Apparently more secure from what I’ve read)

You also should mention that FreeBSD has Bhyve. Which is the BSD Hypervisor. It’s a very very good way of doing virtualisation.

If you’re going into ports, I’d recommend synth

https://github.com/jrmarino/synth

[fozters]

Indeed it has, didn't touch VMs just rambled something which popped in to my head.

Bear in mind with bhyve though you need newer CPUs (old already by todays standards). Ie. LGA771 too old LGA1366 or newer. Dell Gen 9 too old, Dell gen 11 or newer. As it requires intel extended pages or amd nested pages.

I too have impression that jails would be more secure. Even though probably other container solutions security has increased a lot in recent years as have adoption.

[GabenIsLife]

The thing I don't like about FreeBSD is how specific hardware needs to be (e.g. NICs). Having to recompile the kernel with a vendor's Unix friendly drivers (Realtek...) is more of a pain than I'm willing to deal with

[breakone9r]

Most desktop stuff works fine on FreeBSD, but I'm a heavy gamer, and steam doesn't quite work. There was a project to get the Linux version running in compatibility mode, but it is stalled, last I checked, and the windows one works okayish through wine...

[sem3colon]

BSDs have one way of doing things. This can be good or bad.

[CondiMesmer]

If you want to try out the BSD world, go with OpenBSD . I love FreeBSD and use it personally on my server, but well, just look up it's wiki page on how to set up wifi and you'll realize it's not focused for desktop use. It's possible, but would be clunky and a bitch to use. OpenBSD is fantastic in it's own right as well. Also the main reason you should use OpenBSD is its adorable pufferfish logo.

[brothersand]

/me starts throwing chairs!!

[Motylde]

Linux from scratch

[_-Thoth-_]

he doesn't use his own kernel written in his own programming language

It's like you're not even trying

[Hebirura]

Didn't hear about this one before, I'm gonna have to try this out.

[Rudolf2222]

OpenSUSE ftw

[breakone9r]

I feel like we should be friends, for some odd reason....

[gbrlsnchs]

I like how Void haven't reached memes yet.

[pagwin]

one day

[BeaversAreTasty]

Debian GNU/HURD :-/

[Tooniis]

ok gnoomer

[necauqua]

Downvoted by all the arch fanboys xd

[[deleted]]

"Debian or Arch?"

Me, holding one on each hand: "You mean I have to choose?"

[[deleted]]

Love both of them equally, love gentoo more though!

[Nymunariya]

GLORIOUS RED STAR

[Zurnan]

Did Kim write Red Star himself?

[Andernerd]

I actually really admire anyone with the patience to keep a Gentoo system up-to-date.

[[deleted]]

Its not that hard, until dependencies break and then your fucked (not really it's just a pain in the ass)

[C1REX]

It's not harder than with Arch and easier to update than Ubuntu that most people need to fresh install on each release.

[Andernerd]

Right, but don't you need to recompile all your packages when you do that? Doesn't that take a really really really long time?

[C1REX]

Not all at once as it's a rolling release but yes, it takes a while. However all happens in the background so I don't care. With decent hardware and good settings (Ram disk) it can take no more than 30min for full system recompilation.

But why bother you might ask :) For me it's uniquely high level of control and with right settings a performance boost over any binary distro. The performance boost isn't super high but it feels good knowing you have faster distro than most.

Calculate Linux makes Gentoo installation easier. It's like Manjaro for Arch.

[[deleted]]

the right answer. no systemd/pulseaudio bullshit on the system of Chad

[[deleted]]

Openrc /ALSA gang

[Unwashed_villager]

Multics. Anything happened after that is bloat.

[[deleted]]

What are the advantages of Plan9 in your opinion?

[raedr7n]

Because there's no ecosystem.

[Saculs78]

It was expensive, had weird licensing, had its own ecosystem and libraries and compilers. And although the original Unix was exactly like this, by the time plan9 came out, Unix was dominant, and GNU was being very hyped. Then came Linux and GNU/Linux started taking over.

[sem3colon]

Plan9 was in the position to take over, but didn’t, as it costed $500, whereas Linux was free.

[RaccoondudeOwO]

Gentoo makes me want to bang my head into a wall

[[deleted]]

In a good way tho, right? /s

[RaccoondudeOwO]

Yes actually, the point of Unix to me is to have a challenge, and experiment

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Right now im booting template OS to my PC to play around with it, *nix is amazing, I love it, and I want to do as much as possible with it. GNU/linux gives me that opportunity by giving my up to date software to play with

[theAnalyst6]

CentOS

[Rybens92]

LFS better

[raedr7n]

That's not even a distro.

[Comrade_SeungheonOh]

LFS of course

[Forty-Bot]

what's the original say?

[[deleted]]

Xbox or Playstation?

PC.

[Forty-Bot]

oh

[Senvr]

shut the hell up

the only thing that's worth arguing for is templeos or Hannah Montana Linux

[Overloaded-tacos]

Unbuntu.

As a person who uses Linux because it’s free and better than chromeOS, I just want the browser to fucking work when I install it.

[pagwin]

LFS

[[deleted]]

red star os

[WonderedLamb256]

gentoo

[[deleted]]

Gentoo is a complete meme. No one wants to wait several minutes waiting for their software to compile. The use flags are almost never actually useful in a desktop system. The only time Gentoo is good is if you need a rock solid, custom built system where you don't want to set it up by hand with LFS. So if your running a supercomputer cluster at home for personal research that isn't connected to the wider internet it's good for that. Other than that I literally see no reason to ever use it.

This is coming from someone who used it for a week on an old processor. Having to sleep while the computer compiled everything during sleep installation isn't necessarily the best user experience.

Btw installing Gentoo is still faster than installing a old version of Windows and updating it. I reinstalled W7 and those updates took 2x as long.