Please, by all means, don’t care. I, for one, care about whether strangers on the internet try to dunning-kruger me. Life’s too short for that.
I’ve used NetBSD on a server before, and it was fine, but like, what reason would I have to move away from Linux?
The same reason why weirdos want Windows users to move away from Windows, I guess. It is lovely to have options, and (given the continuing enshittification of much of Linux, with systemd spreading through the whole ecosystem like a virus, less customizability, more security fails, …) BSD is quite an appalling option. It runs (almost) all Linux software, is notably more mature (it existed long before Linux and quite a few companies relied and worked on it for decades, making it enterprise-ready by design), has a very nice community (and me) and it runs on old hardware much longer than Linux does; ironically, that’s what Linux users think they do better than Windows. Heh.
And the BSDs (I, personally, use OpenBSD on a few servers, only recently started trying NetBSD on a spare laptop) are only a subset of your free alternatives, with Solaris (illumos) and (e.g.) Haiku being two others. There will always be one system that does exactly what you want and how you want it.
I’m going to be honest, it feels like you might have some kinda superiority complex here… I’m sure BSDs are lovely and great and I’m really glad you enjoy using them, but Linux and BSD are both great options for people, and I’m glad they’re both available.
I don’t really care about the whole systemd conflict. All I care about is that I own my computer and I control all of the software that runs on it. If I wanted to, I could swap out systemd for init or sysV or whatever but I don’t want to because I’m very familiar with it at this point, it works fine.
If I need BSD for something, I will certainly be more than happy to reach for it. Actually, come to think of it, I do use BSD - OpenWRT is BSD based I believe, and I have a few Wi-Fi access points/routers running OpenWRT.
it feels like you might have some kinda superiority complex here…
I couldn’t care less which software other people use. It seemed strange to me to run an operating system that won’t support the software I need natively, that’s all.
So you understand the appeal of why someone would use FreeBSD, and you also understand that there’s some software which is only available for Windows that people might still want to use, so… I don’t really understand how that’s particularly strange, but I hope you understand now that we’ve talked it out that it’s pretty ordinary.
Please, by all means, don’t care. I, for one, care about whether strangers on the internet try to dunning-kruger me. Life’s too short for that.
The same reason why weirdos want Windows users to move away from Windows, I guess. It is lovely to have options, and (given the continuing enshittification of much of Linux, with systemd spreading through the whole ecosystem like a virus, less customizability, more security fails, …) BSD is quite an appalling option. It runs (almost) all Linux software, is notably more mature (it existed long before Linux and quite a few companies relied and worked on it for decades, making it enterprise-ready by design), has a very nice community (and me) and it runs on old hardware much longer than Linux does; ironically, that’s what Linux users think they do better than Windows. Heh.
And the BSDs (I, personally, use OpenBSD on a few servers, only recently started trying NetBSD on a spare laptop) are only a subset of your free alternatives, with Solaris (illumos) and (e.g.) Haiku being two others. There will always be one system that does exactly what you want and how you want it.
I’m going to be honest, it feels like you might have some kinda superiority complex here… I’m sure BSDs are lovely and great and I’m really glad you enjoy using them, but Linux and BSD are both great options for people, and I’m glad they’re both available.
I don’t really care about the whole systemd conflict. All I care about is that I own my computer and I control all of the software that runs on it. If I wanted to, I could swap out systemd for init or sysV or whatever but I don’t want to because I’m very familiar with it at this point, it works fine.
If I need BSD for something, I will certainly be more than happy to reach for it. Actually, come to think of it, I do use BSD - OpenWRT is BSD based I believe, and I have a few Wi-Fi access points/routers running OpenWRT.
I couldn’t care less which software other people use. It seemed strange to me to run an operating system that won’t support the software I need natively, that’s all.
So you understand the appeal of why someone would use FreeBSD, and you also understand that there’s some software which is only available for Windows that people might still want to use, so… I don’t really understand how that’s particularly strange, but I hope you understand now that we’ve talked it out that it’s pretty ordinary.