Post by @raster@retro-gaiden.com
am becoming so despondent at the slopbot invasion in linux, seemingly getting worse weekly [oh linus! 💔], that more & more i ponder a possible #BSD escape route, yet nothing i read anywhere so far gives me any confidence at all that i would be capable of handling all the technical challenges involved. i just want a daily desktop, not a server, & i want it not for a technical challenge at all but simply so i can use my apps to do the stuff i need... which is not at all database or server related in any way. i've just finished perusing a few dozen subreddit threads on the three arguably best known BSDs, & it was nothing but depressing & demoralising
in 2013 when i tired of 20+ years of redmond arseholery & shitfuckery, i discovered linux & was delighted with it, entirely meeting all my needs ever since. now however, with this very same hitherto paradise apparently rushing to sleep with the enemy, it feels like i have no realistic escape option
faaaaaaaaaaaaarque!
#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
#FuckGenerativeAI #FuckSlopbots #AntiAI #NoAI #EscapeFromLinux ? 
#KDELinux | 
#ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
#Kalpa | 
#SparkyLinux | 
#Kinoite #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebarProject #NativeTreeTabsProject 
#Floorp
@MsDropbear42 I do think a lot of the complexity is overexaggerated/outdated, the main day-to-day differences are just how you manage packages and system services, which is the same for Linuxes anyway.
I'd say installing a BSD is only about as hard as Arch Linux, the BSDs all have solid manuals/instructions. You just have to make sure your hardware is supported first, though FreeBSD is pretty good on that front.
NetBSD is my favourite, it's fast enough, has great support for old computers, and the strongest AI policy of the big 3. Only problem is my laptop's wifi card is several generations too new, so I can't use it there yet 
Anyway, what's happening with Linux is really annoying, its so pointless too! An operating system has one job, work consistently, and I can't see a world where slopping makes that easier.
@cxxvii @MsDropbear42 Yeah, more than half of discussions I had found on places like Reddit and alike is like they didn't really used FreeBSD from 15 years (or more). :P
I'm able to run my Linux ports games without issues either (with a couple of caveats, but I don't mind).
Installing FreeBSD is not much different from starting from Debian without DE and then add later the videoserver and desktop, and the rest of the application. FreeBSD is pretty straightforward about configuration too.
@cxxvii @MsDropbear42 The two big things for the desktop user probably are the lacking of some gui applications for manage disks and alike (no gparted), but ghostbsd took care adding a couple of utilities.
The second, the port system could have some conflicts in how some apps are compiled, but at least is not like on Linux where half of time what you need is dispersed between two or three external repositories. No really need of stuff like Flatpack on Freebsd usually.