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Re: "Abandoning FreeBSD; back to Linux"
@stack I agree with @yvonne, if you want a Linux OS that feels BSDish but isn't too painful to manage and maintain, Void is one of the best out there and it's really performant. i still use it on one machine and xbps and runit are awesome. Despite being a rolling release type of distro, things rarely break.
Dec 19 · 9 days ago
Abandoning FreeBSD; back to Linux — I give up. I gave it a good try, and kind of liked it. But it's just too painful, and I was beginning to feel like may hands were tied behind my back. I especiallly liked the minimalism. Only a handful of processes running (as opposed to hundreds on my xubuntu machine). Fast and clean. But I did not like the constant struggle for simple things. Mounting drives. Editing wpa_supplicant file to connect to wifis, like it's 1999. Everything is like pulling...