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   寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 00:30:34 JST 寮
   I have to admit, all those people who once used Linux and converted to the BSD's are right, the more I use FreeBSD and OpenBSD, the more I like them, and the more I feel like Linux is just a big mess.
   I still love Linux as much as I love OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but the latter 2 really feel like complete operating systems that are well thought out, easy to maintain, and very comfortable to use.
   
   But it's all fine, because both of these are really meant to be full operating systems independent from everybody else, and Linux is really meant to be just a kernel with separate components developed in isolation from each other that put together form an OS.
   The point of Linux is to give you the freedom to just replace each component you don't like for one you do like, whereas the BSD's are more meant to be used as intended by the developers, but still provide you the freedom to replace each component if you really want to.
   
   And I will continue to use all 3 of them, though on servers I chose to go full BSD-only, because the only viable Linux distro's in my opinion are Artix and Gentoo, which are both excellent for desktops, but I can't recommend neither on servers at all.
   Due to the nature of Linux, it makes perfect sense for distro's being rolling release, not fixed release, but rolling release on its turn only makes sense on desktops, not servers.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 23:18:46 JST 寮

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     • Wrongthink
     Alpine is a different beast altogether, it was meant more for firewalls, SIP phones, and Docker containers, it just so happens that you can run it as a desktop OS.
     postmarketOS (a distro specifically for Pinephone, Librem 5, and old Android phones) is actually based off Alpine, and Alpine's repo is pretty empty, which is the main thing what makes me refrain from using Alpine.
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     Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 23:18:47 JST Wrongthink

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     @ryo I’ve been eyeing Alpine Linux lately and it seems like Linux spun up with a little spirit of BSD.