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liendolucas 3 hours ago

FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD are your friends too!

Matl 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Let me know if any of them work well on a laptop that's never than 5 years old.

liendolucas 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Running FreeBSD on a Lenovo Thinkbook 16 G7 ARP that was bought brand new less than a year ago. Everything except the wifi works flawlessly (daily driver for working).

And the wifi is easily fixable either buying a non expensive dongle or waiting for the next release.

Also running bhyve as daily driver with Ubuntu for development purposes. Everything works without issues, perfectly.

Matl 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's valuable and good to know, but I meant a machine that's actually new (not one you just bought recently). That laptop is about 2.5 years old specs wise at this point. I use mine for anything from programming to video editing to AAA gaming on Linux. I don't think a machine like that could be my primary one, but looks like a decent secondary.

asdff 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Psst. Macos is bsd in a trenchcoat. Don't let the others see this comment or they will get angry.

ocd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Perhaps, but the BSD developers do not fully invite themselves into your home and network through use of their operating system. I do appreciate however that macOS is BSD somewhere under the hood and switched to zsh as default shell (even if it was supposedly only for licensing reasons, but I believe it's the correct decision practically or legally)

Matl 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The post is `I said no and Apple said yes` so not sure how much being a BSD protects you there. Apple still controls it.