5 Reasons why I use FreeBSD

Here are the 5 reasons why I use FreeBSD

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[chrisstrtkng]

Not many people providing BSD content on here, keep up the great work!

[SirMo]

I still remember picking up the FreeBSD book and FreeBSD CDs from a computer store in early 2000s. Going home and learning from the book and installing the OS. I learned so much thanks to FreeBSD. I use Linux these days, because unfortunately I've had a hard time getting FreeBSD to install on my hardware. But I still give it a try every year or so.

[clenden]

My daily driver is MacOS. I use FreeBSD for everything else from network firewalls to file servicers. I have never had a problem bringing up a server. Hands down the best documentation in the world. Without it I think I would have failed from the start.

[johna]

Every time I browse the freebsd forums trying to find an answer for something, I noticed alot of the people over there are quite snobby and not very helpful. Especially some of the moderators. But it is an amazing OS no doubt. I use it as a server on my rockpro64 and run a TOR relay on it.

[JoeyGarcia]

All great reasons to prefer FreeBSD. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are my preferences when it comes to Unix Operating Systems. Yes, the network stack in FreeBSD is very performant, which is probably one of the reasons why Netflix uses it for it's video streaming services. Many other large businesses use FreeBSD and other BSD derived Unix OS's. I also believe in the right tool for the job. So for me the tools are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or MS Windows. One day, I'm going to force myself to give NetBSD more of a shot.

[Shpongle]

It's interesting, there's a small group of youtube techies that I keep coming back to and you are one of them. Here's a subscribe.

[RoboNuggie]

Some solid reasons indeed, can't agree more with your choices there Gary.... thanks for uploading and sharing!

[reptilicusrex]

Thanks for the effort in making these FreeBSD related videos. I use it daily and all your points are valid as far as I'm concerned.

[mattwilliams]

Been a die hard Linux user for 8 or so years, and I've really been contemplating on switching to FreeBSD recently, I think this video really pushed me to go for it.
I did browse the handbook right before this video, and you're absolutely correct it is phenomenal. I don't think I will be able to move to FreeBSD for my main desktop though.

[brandonphilander]

Just wish virtualization (bhyve) gpu passthrough and hardware acceleration worked better on FreeBSD. That alone would make it the best OS around.

[danniculescu]

One very important strong point of the FreeBSD philosophy is backward compatibility. No changes to kernel and userland or management and configuration unless a new technology or strictly necessary changes take place, thus the life cycle of FreeBSD competencies is decades long. I'm setting up routing and ip filtering on my servers same way I was doing it 20 years ago. For the superficial observer that's obsolence, specially coming from the ever changing operating systems of which some of them strive to be something the're not, like that kernel we all know about that dreams of being a windows kernel.

[gabriel_cszt]

Hi Gary,

I've tried it all: Windows, macOS, countless Linux distros, and now I'm starting to explore FreeBSD.

I use Arch with Xfce, and thanks to the pacman package manager and the AUR community repositories, I don't need to use flatpak or snap. I have all the software I want and more than I could ever use.

I haven't tried ports yet, but I imagine it must be somewhat similar to the AUR. Thanks to your tutorials, I was able to install FreeBSD with Plasma, something I wouldn't have managed otherwise.

All the best!

[mkrkosmos]

Love it. My favourite operating system, so far. Would love to learn OpenBSD, as well

[neetkucing]

Tbh freebsd is one of the best os, simple rock solid stable (not as stable as minix, but minix is dead) feature almost complete and usable. The documentation is massive. To put into perspective the BSD utils + kernel - man pages docs compiler stack is around 190mb, if you strip the default config and lib32 its about 187, cut some unnecessary kernel modules and you have around 184 . At this point its close to alpine Linux and lfs without gni and systemd. The installation fresh from iso is around 1, 6gigs.

If not via port you can go into clean setup of xorg wayland in less than 10 minutes as long as you read the documentation. So yes as long as you read, using freebsd is easy, almost painless since the Dev and the documentation is hand holding you along.

[markjcrane]

I'm using FreeBSD on my Desktop and Laptop using KDE and loving it. Like it more than Windows because of Privacy, No cost, Easier to update, and no need for a windows account. A few applications may need windows or Linux can use bhyve or virtual box ose.

[JamestheZinHondo]

I just installed GhostBSD, based on FreeBSD, on a laptop little over a decade in okd and I am VERY shocked. Installation of the OS was easy. Everything seems to be working very well. Still figuring things out but my curiosity and interest to be use this as my daily driver is growing.

[bertnijhof]

Probably I would use Windows on my desktop having the choice between Windows or FreeBSD :) However I prefer Ubuntu since my retirement on 1-1-11.
I now run Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with OpenZFS 2.1 for my 2019 Ryzen desktop, also because it is the perfect match with FreeBSD 13.0 on OpenZFS 2.0. I use FreeBSD since June 2019 as backup server for my desktop. It runs on the remains of a 2003 HP d530, using a 32-bits Pentium 4 (1C2T; 3.0GHz); 2GB DDR and 4 HDDs (2x IDE 3.5" and 2x SATA-1 2.5") in total 1.21TB.

[CaseyStrouse]

Gentoo's portage (which was heavily influenced by the ports system) and NetBSD's pkgsrc offer pretty much the same thing you like about FreeBSD's ports. With Gentoo you set various options in a config file with both global optimizations and feature subsets to enable and specific overrides for individual packages. I really like FreeBSD and have been a regular user since 4.7 RELEASE but it's by no means the only system that can be customized heavily for your configuration. NixOS is another system that has some interesting and similar capabilities with the entire system being defined in a declarative fashion with reproducible builds, the ability to test out new things first before switching the production system over to them, and a few other super useful bits.

[JenniferKrisystin]

I Love it! Boxes currently running in production 20 + years in heavy production environment.

[underconfident_asmr]

Back in 2002, I first broke away from an entire childhood and growing up experience with Macintosh and was introduced to RedHat on a friend’s computer. In that year I built my first PC tower all on my own, very excited. I hopped right into a long and rough journey because I just had to be maximum nerd and learn Slackware, and that was my gateway drug. After a few years of that though, I found my way to FreeBSD and stuck with that. Over the years though, it fell back as a secondary desktop for me. I’m long since back on Apple, and even do my daily driving (and my job as a load planner for a distribution center) on an iPad Pro. Me. The same guy who so loved working in a CLI, I still adore working in a CLI. But anyway, It’s nice to know that if I had no choice, I certainly could go back in the past and daily drive FreeBSD, I still use it. But there gets to be a point and age when convenience becomes a tad more important and hell, I need to sync stuff on and off my iPhone and iPad, and it’s alot easier on a Mac than the limited hardware access you have plugging into a BSD box and I want nothing to do with Google or Android so it’s sort of a self-imposed jail (not a “jail” haha.) ANYHOO, great video sir. As someone who has long loved FreeBSD, I appreciate it when someone takes the time to talk about why they choose to use it and presents themselves like this. Cheers.