FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues

Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by saghm on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:10PM (#24859587)

> When plug-and-play, drivers, and power management work correctly. When business software is compatible. When you don't have to search through obscure forums or jump on FreeNode to figure out why your wireless card doesn't work. When your filesystem corrupts and won't boot because you didn't shut it down correctly.

GP did say "in 2020"; I haven't had any of those issues for years

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by vehemenz on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:43PM (#24864964)

This is the same canned response we also had twenty years ago.

"Works for me, so it's not an issue."

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by saghm on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:37PM (#24871270)

I agree that my experience is only one datapoint. But your comment was in response to someone who's experience was having more issues on Windows than Linux by saying that you don't have issues on Windows, which is the same thing.

Personally, I run into way more issues when I try to use Windows than Linux; for example, whenever I boot into Windows on my desktop, it doesn't recognize that my ethernet cable is plugged in unless I unplug it and then replug it back in. It also sometimes just doesn't give any audio output when it boots up, and I have to reboot to get it to work. These and other issues I have may not be issues you run into, but they are just as valid experiences as the issues you might have with Linux. My point is that the argument that Windows "just works" out of the box is not as objective as you might think.

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