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submitted 1 year ago by clehaxze@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

So I'm about to get a new laptop (likely 13th gen intel) since my current one is breaking down. Currently I run Arch Linux on my device and is looking into FreeBSD or OpenBSD as the OS. Mainly because once I tried to look into the Linux kernel and can't believe the amount of spaghetti in it. I've read a little bit of Free and OpenBSD kernels. They look a lot nicer. And I travel a bit with my laptop to visit a few infosec conferences. I hear the BSDs have a more solid kernel then Linux (I know BSDs are OSs).

I'm use my laptop to browse the internet, remote into my boxes to code and email. And I tried to use both in VM and feels ok with them.

Can experienced BSD users share some pitfalls and why or why not to use BSD?

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[-] Redscare867@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

If you decide not to go the BSD route, you should look into Void Linux. The maintainers used to be BSD people and they have carried some of that influence into Void.

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