PressureBig3940

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[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

There's also a third reason on why not BSD:

Practically all OSS projects assume you are building on Linux. Most complex programmes like LibreOffice, Chromium, Firefox, ffmpeg etc absolutely will not build on the BSDs if you are following the build instructions provided by the projects as-is..

In some instances the failure is caused by something simple like using BSD make instead of GNU make. But unfortunately for the other 99% of the time it's something very complicated that requires significant patches to the project itself because of assumptions that the project is built against glibc instead of the BSD's libc, or using gcc instead of llvm and clang, etc.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

BSD's kernel ABI is not stable. Stability is only attempted in a best-effort basis for a single major version. Like how FreeBSD only tries to ensure kernel ABI stability in Release 14.0 and its updates but upgrading to Release 15 is considered an ABI break.

Still, it's much better than Linux breaking ABI in every release.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sharing an anecdote: I lost a 1U server because Linux didn't spin up the fans while the CPU was under 100% load on all cores.

This never happened in Windows.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can think of a few reasons on why not BSDs right now:

  • Poor hardware support compared to Linux. Unfortunately, the Linux kernel compatibility layer isn't exactly a cure-all for fixing hardware support. Three years ago I tried using FreeBSD and I couldn't even get an accelerated desktop running on an Intel Skylake.
  • Not sure if you experienced this; the FreeBSD kernel is dumb compared to Linux. In most manuals and Gemini responses there's always a need to manually start modules with kldload. In Linux the relevant module is generally loaded whenthe required daemon / hardware / service is started

Unfortunately, the BSDs really are not usable for me right now. Windows definitely works best for everything most of the time, but at this point Linux is my lowest baseline for what makes a usable OS.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

These types are a lot more common than you may think they are.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

This should be shown to as many people as possible.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Bold of you to assume those Loonixtards even know how to start something like Kubernetes.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Not surprised. The bank app I use overrides even the default GBoard on Android and enforces the use of its own keyboard.

And naturally the Loonixtards will be up in arms against this.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Haiku's biggest problem is its inability to run most modern web browsers and software. I think the Haiku people recently managed to port Firefox to Haiku but it still doesn't handle the modern web properly.

And of course, forget about using any kind of productivity software on it if coexistence with MS Office or Adobe is required.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know the Loonixtards are just trying to make themselves sound more sophisticated and competent than they really are when they call bash commands and scripts "code".

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

The fact this post is downvoted here is proof the Loonixtards are everywhere.

[–] PressureBig3940@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If anything, Loonix eats even more ram than Windows or Mac because it completely lacks the proprietary software Windows and Mac users rely on for work every day. SO they end up using web apps and PWAs, like the online version version of MS Office and Adobe tools

Which, as we all know, really only work best under Chrome and Chromium-type browsers.

Simply having one web email client PWA and one browser with a few tabs open will cause any computer with 8GB ram to start swapping.

But of course the Loonixers will never admit to that.

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