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It looks like we'll soon be welcoming a lot of new Linux users here (www.theverge.com)

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[-] moreeni@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago

And stumble upon barely useble OSes? BSDs now are as niche as Linux distros were a decade ago

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 8 months ago

It's more like how Linux was 25+ years ago. BSDs are great for servers and firewalls, but they aren't really ready for desktop use yet.

[-] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

The year of the BSD desktop is coming

[-] Haijo7@snac.haijo.eu 3 points 8 months ago

BSD based operating systems work fine for a lot of things. A huge majority of people only use their computers to browse the web, write documents and read their e-mail.
Something like GhostBSD would work perfectly well for this, though afaik GhostBSD is just FreeBSD with a different default configuration.
Though you are not going to be able to do much that involves proprietary software, like playing video games. Unless you use Wine or a proprietary BSD based operating system like that of Sony's or Nintendo's game consoles, or Mac OS.
I'm actually thinking about installing OpenBSD on my laptop, though I would not recommend doing this to anyone who just wants to stop using Windows.

CC: @jaypatelani@lemmy.ml

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Maybe this is a roundabout way of saying Mac which are based on BSD.

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