A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To

Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by gh02t on Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:32AM (#12372756)

Huh, it seems people's experience varies a lot. I've been using Arch as my primary OS at work and home for something like 4 years now. It's been quite stable and low maintenance. It has broken a 3 or 4 times, but my Windows install that I play games on has broken more times than that.

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:40AM (#12372787)

Yeah, that's been my experience as well. I tried ubuntu first, and that broke every 6 months. Finally, a kernel upgrade rendered my system unusable, and I switched to Fedora once it was fixed. Fedora didn't break as much, but it still broke. Finally, I switched to Arch. I've been able to fix any breakage, and my system's been fine ever since.

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by michaelmrose on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:22PM (#12373747)

Isn't it strange in 2016 that its considered ok to break at all?

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:31PM (#12373793)

No. Software breaks. The question is when, and if it's fixable. With Arch, I find the answers are "soon" and "yes".

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @06:59PM (#12374555)

Aaaaugh! I meant "not so soon." Arch breaks infrequently for me.

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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by michaelmrose on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @03:11AM (#12396491)

I liked the first response better.

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