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[–] degen@midwest.social 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We got a historian over here! Lol Twins is a bit strong as a descriptor but the spirit of it might be apt enough.

I wish I had learned more about BSD before getting so ingrained in Linux. Not because one is "better" or anything. They're just two different worlds. I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to explore it the way I'd like to, like I did with Linux.

But who knows, it's just one step more than all the distro and setup hopping I've done over the years.

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[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

If you try FreeBSD you get ZFS as the file system and PF (OpenBSD's creation) as the firewall. Sound and video will be a little different to set up, but most applications are going to work the same these days.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I think it's a fair characterization, I just wanted to clarify that it is indeed based on Unix.

To my knowledge I've never used BSD. I didn't move away from Windows until I, like you say, just didn't have the bandwidth to do more than one experimental thing with my computer. Windows pushed me out a few years back, and I went with Linux because of the breadth of support.

I've got tons of time to do research, though. By which I mean read random Wikipedia articles in the bathroom, TBH. I found a big tree somewhere on there a long time ago, showing the progression from PDP Unix all the way to the latest FreeBSD (with Linux as a little tag on the side, lol).

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