what’s your favorite kind of #linux distro? why?
@taco When I used Linux, my preferences were Debian-based, & that was because of their deb & apt package management interfaces.
(I switched to FreeBSD to escape pulse-audio & systemd.)
@arielmt how is the world of desktop bsd treating you? i’ve never tried it out. :0
@taco Functionally identical to Linux on the desktop, though I use wmx & a heavily customized .xsession instead of a full DE like XFCE.
In the shell the differences between BSD & GNU commands took a bit of getting used to, but that was made up for by a complete & actually useful `man` system. I don't miss GNU `info` at all.
@arielmt understandable, i’ll have to check those out! never really played with freebsd, but i’m interested :3
(i mainly based the poll off of the general categories i saw on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions, for reference)
@taco Also, I dove straight into FreeBSD knowing it's not at all intended for dedicated or general desktop use. Like with your poll's base Linux distros, there are derivatives designed for different & specialized use cases. This DistroWatch search lists a few FreeBSD-based ones: https://distrowatch.com/search.php?basedon=FreeBSD