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Re:FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad by peterwwillis on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:45PM (#20868414)
I just want software that works well. In some ways, Free Software is that, and in some ways, it isn't.

I reject the idea that this is how it has to be. There is no reason Free Software has to be user-unfriendly.

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Re:FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad by floatboth on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:19PM (#20872748)
You can use Ubuntu/Mint/elementary/etc. and it's very user-friendly. You can pay Purism or system76 to deliver you a literal physical out-of-the-box experience.

But, like, let tinkerers tinker. Nobody said that this should be the way to go for everyone or that user-friendly unix does not exist. You brought the assumption that all Free Software is like that into a thread about a specific less-popular explicitly-not-desktop-oriented OS ;)

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