Comment by waynesonfire
1 day ago
I was running Ubuntu 16.04; migrated to FreeBSD and I'm all in. Between 16.04 and the current version of Linux; the ecosystem shifted. It's values shifted in ways that did not align with me. This mis-alignment is what motivated me to boot-up FreeBSD. I'm glad I discovered it. I found my happy place again.
It's an incredible journey to take--whether you stick with it or not. Migrating to FreeBSD gives you new eyes into what Linux was, is, and the awesomeness of FreeBSD that is so hard to articulate; like describing the color blue. It must be taken as a whole to appreciate it; and I'm not just saying the OS, it's commands, kernel features, but, the end-to-end compute experience, over time.
If I could draw an equivelent, it would be like when Djistrka savagely destroyed the GOTO statement with a single, short, paper. It took a brilliant mind to articulate that and there has yet to be such a mind to describe the beauty of FreeBSD. So, the best I can do, is just to challenge you to try it.
I've been running FreeBSD at home for a couple of years, and Linux at work (and at home) for 25 years. I'm interested to learn how the Linux ecosystem's values shifted. I figured out pretty early on that Ubuntu wasn't for me (now I usually run Debian, Slackware before that), and I'm wondering if the 'values' issues are Ubuntu specific or if they're some greater problem. I'm not trolling or defending Linux, I'm honestly just curious what you think.