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Comment by wolvoleo

2 days ago

Well if I wanted to make my life easier I would just use ubuntu or something. Or even Windows? Because even between Linux distros there's a lot of difference in terms of usability. FreeBSD is not something you can run without investing time to figure things out, you really have to be willing to think different. But that's good for me, I don't like going with the flow, I'm an anti-team player :)

But by supporting options that have real ports, I stimulate those. By giving in to the easy way I will make that more palatable for developers.

And Gnome and KDE have native ports. I really hate the opinionated design of Gnome so I don't use it, but I do use KDE. It does have a lot of cool tweaks by the maintainer to make it work properly.

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wutwutwat  2 days ago

I was just saying, is your goal for the os to get out of the way so you can get a job done, or is your job tinkering with your os. I've ran opensense which is a freebsd derivative, and I daily macOS/Darwin which is bsd. Honestly until I need to mess with some systemctl flags I get the same experience from bsd and Linux. Posix and all...

  • wolvoleo  2 days ago

    macOS is not BSD. It's a common misunderstanding, it borrows some userland but the kernel is radically different.

    But yeah my OS should get out of the way but I don't mind investing a little time in getting things working right. That includes picking the right tools. I was looking for a notetaking app and one of them was like 'just use the compatibility layer'. I think it was notesnook. I just picked obsidian instead which has a port. Still not ideal as it's electron but pretty much all these notetaking apps seem to be electron somehow. And I needed compatibility with android too.

    If there's something I could really not do without I would consider it but there's nothing like that right now.

    • torstenvl  2 days ago

      > macOS is not BSD

      No. This is a common contrarian take, but it's nonsense. macOS is built on Darwin which, along with XNU, traces its lineage through NeXTSTEP to 4.3BSD.

      macOS is every bit as much of a BSD derivative as FreeBSD is.

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