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I run Mint at home and it does what I need, but I'm curious what advantages there might be to switching to FreeBSD.
What might be some compelling reasons why someone would use or switch to FreeBSD from another Linux distro? Security, performance, stability...?
I get freedom from systemd by using Devuan, but I am tempted to try FreeBSD for my desktop.
I really like apt, though.
I used to really like apt too. Now on FreeBSD, similar functionality by using pkg for prebuilt binaries. Or, if working from the ports tree, its as simple as "make install clean" and all the deps are pulled in automatically.
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Good reasons to switch? (Score:2)
I run Mint at home and it does what I need, but I'm curious what advantages there might be to switching to FreeBSD.
What might be some compelling reasons why someone would use or switch to FreeBSD from another Linux distro? Security, performance, stability...?
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Possibly better security, although if you want a more security-focused distro, maybe OpenBSD would be a choice.
Re:Good reasons to switch? (Score:2)
I get freedom from systemd by using Devuan, but I am tempted to try FreeBSD for my desktop.
I really like apt, though.
Re:Good reasons to switch? (Score:5, Informative)
I used to really like apt too. Now on FreeBSD, similar functionality by using pkg for prebuilt binaries. Or, if working from the ports tree, its as simple as "make install clean" and all the deps are pulled in automatically.