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        8 months ago

        Its more of a niche. You probably won’t have the huge support you have on gnu/Linux nowadays

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          8 months ago

          “gnu/Linux nowadays” is unusable on old hardware (except distros like Alpine) I think?

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            8 months ago

            There are a bunch of distros focused on old hardware compatibility. I often install Linux on 32 bit laptops from around 2008 and they work perfectly

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        8 months ago

        It’s not necessarily better, some things are a personal preference. Though some might be able to list some technical pros and cons.

        Some things I appreciate are:

        • base systems and packages are completely separate. Packages and their configuration goes in /usr/local/ No where else. (Thought they might write to /var/ )
        • bsd init, not systemd. Feels more home to me as a late 90s slackware user.
        • first class zfs support. Linux has caught up lately, especially now that there is a shared zfs codebase for both Linux and FreeBSD. When I switched to FreeBSD on my home server ~10 years ago that wasn’t the case.