- Joined
- Nov 15, 2007
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- Age
- 39
- Location
- Copley, Ohio.
- Vehicle Year
- 1997
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 2.3L
- Transmission
- Automatic
I run FreeBSD on my main desktop at home, as well as my home server which does web, email, music, video, and file serving. I also run FreeBSD on several old desktops hooked to TVs for watching videos and listening to music stored on the server, as well as playing DVDs.
I use Xfce4 as the desktop environment with Xmonad as the window manager.
I run Xubuntu on my and my girlfriend's laptops since there is not yet a driver for the wireless cards for FreeBSD.
I used Linux for a couple of years but found it buggy, with updates breaking things from time to time. The FreeBSD kernel and built-in userland seems much more stable. Some of the third-party programs can be buggy, but generally they seem to be more stable than the programs in, say, the Ubuntu repositories.
I also find the set-up and configuration of FreeBSD to be a little more simple and intuitive than Linux. I like how simple it is to configure, build and install software from source in FreeBSD, which tends to make things work the first time more often than installing from binaries.
I've installed Xubuntu on my father's personal laptop and he seems to be doing fine with it, despite being an ignorant old man. Linux isn't for everybody; some things must be done manually. If you like to learn and tweak, though, it could turn out to be a lot of fun.
Also, the only game I play is Doom, so the lack of blockbluster games doesn't bother me.
I use Xfce4 as the desktop environment with Xmonad as the window manager.
I run Xubuntu on my and my girlfriend's laptops since there is not yet a driver for the wireless cards for FreeBSD.
I used Linux for a couple of years but found it buggy, with updates breaking things from time to time. The FreeBSD kernel and built-in userland seems much more stable. Some of the third-party programs can be buggy, but generally they seem to be more stable than the programs in, say, the Ubuntu repositories.
I also find the set-up and configuration of FreeBSD to be a little more simple and intuitive than Linux. I like how simple it is to configure, build and install software from source in FreeBSD, which tends to make things work the first time more often than installing from binaries.
I've installed Xubuntu on my father's personal laptop and he seems to be doing fine with it, despite being an ignorant old man. Linux isn't for everybody; some things must be done manually. If you like to learn and tweak, though, it could turn out to be a lot of fun.
Also, the only game I play is Doom, so the lack of blockbluster games doesn't bother me.