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BobOmbMonkey · 12 answers · 1y

Have you ever used a BSD-based OS? What did you think of it?

i didn't, and it's mostly because their differences with linux don't matter much to me

I dabbled with it in VM's before. I've long thought of it as being more Linux than Linux.

The latter mentioned OS is where I feel at home, has everything you would ever want or need unless gaming is your priority.

Only in a VM. It kinda just seemed like Linux, except it's impossible to install 99.9% of proprietary software and it probably runs on weaker PCs more easily

All the three major BSDs are really fun to toy with. Though, OpenBSD is the only one that refuses to give any method to easily get the processor's microcode (MSR=A32_BIOS_SIGN_ID), so you have to go to the Github repo and check (with your processor family/model) bytes [4..7].

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