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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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On 29 Jul 2025 18:12:26 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> Taking a quick glance at r/BSD the consensus is FreeBSD is miserable, 
> OpenBSD is worse, and NetBSD is for people who really don't expect to
> have a working system. And that's from the fans...

NetBSD is perfectly usable provided you're running it on supported
hardware - but it doesn't provide any of the hand-holding that fancier,
friendlier Linux distros do. You don't have to build everything from
source, but you *do* have to be comfortable partitioning a disk from a
CLI utility per your own expected usage, twiddling the network settings
if you don't want it to wait for a connection on boot, setting up an X
environment one piece at a time, and generally existing in a world
where runlevel 3 out-of-the-box is The Norm.

OpenBSD is basically NetBSD for security freaks. I can't speak to its
solidity, but there's zero reason to use it if you're not setting up a
production server.

FreeBSD is for people who really want a Mac.