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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by umanwizard on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:38PM (#18659658)
Does it matter whether random people think Linux is user-hostile? Why is it important that grandma be able to use Ubuntu instead of macOS or Windows on her desktop?
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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by loeg on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:42PM (#18660971)
Yes! How do you think you bring new people in to the Linux community? Everyone starts somewhere, and no one is teaching Linux desktop to primary school students.

Anecdotally, the first Linux experience that I was able to install and operate myself, after a handful of prior failed attempts, was Ubuntu (2005). And a big part of that was that it was friendly to absolute beginners like myself.

Now I am a FreeBSD developer and have patches in a plethora of open source projects, including Linux. Everybody starts somewhere!

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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by Koshkin on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @08:01PM (#18660501)
> random people

A.k.a. your “customers.”

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