Its a big step for them to go from commercial to open source, lets keep it linux for now
It seems like driver support for BSD has always been a bit sketchy. Is that still the case?
But apart from that, BSD have numerous advantages over Linux distributions :
The system is designed/controlled by a one team, with better uniformity at the end, in contrast to Linux world where you have a assembly of multiple projects developed by multiple teams
ZFS. It’s also available on Linux but in BSD (especially FreeBSD) it’s a first-class citizen
The documentation is also better. The OpenBSD is outstanding, you can literally use only the doc without external source of knowledge for virtually anything. FreeBSD doc is also very good.
The core utility is also very helpful. FreeBSD with Dtrace and jails, OpenBSD with pledge and unveil for example.
For nontech users who need to run random desktop software, dtrace, jails, pledge, uveil and zfs are irrelevant. Ext4 and Chromium will do just fine, but the network printer and a random smart card reader support must be rock solid.
xeonmc•7mo ago