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[–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Damn I'm contemplating going to FreeBSD. What made you go the other way? What do you miss from FreeBSD?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I miss /usr/ports. I could spend days just exploring its contents.

    I miss an /etc structure that wasn't a complete mess.

    I miss UFS and its soft updates.

    I miss the stability of fBSD 3 and 4.

    I miss the ease of which you tweaked, compiled, and installed a new kernel.

    And just because of the hilarious legacy that was obsolete 20 years beforw I started with it, I miss the concept of font-servers.

    The main reason for my migration was the bigger userbase of linux where it was easier to find people who has resolved whatever issue I was having, plus nvidia drivers. Plus I've only needed to use fBSD once professionally.

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