[I3] I just switched to FreeBSD
Resending this cuz image failed to attach
Bar: Eww
WM: I3
Compositor: picom
Terminal: Kitty
@unixporn@lemmy.world
What are you switching from, and any particular reason to switch away from Linux?
Looks beautiful
Also interested in this. Does someone have info how up to date packages are in FreeBSD compared to linux distros? I imagine its not as bleeding edge as Arch? But also not as dusty as Debian?
They’re very up to date, the ones that are maintained. FreeBSD has quarterly and latest repos, though. If you want the very latest, use latest, if you want more stable, quarterly updates, use quarterly. You can use https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/QuarterlyBranch for guidance on how to switch.
This comment made me laugh. One thing I prefer about FreeBSD is not only have updated packages but being able to custom compile them.
Any time I have to use Ubuntu in Docker containers at work I’m ready to kill myself; though Alpine Linux is incredible (can’t speak to Arch).
@MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world learning,curiosity and just for fun
tho so far apart from the few driver issues im having i really like it
Congrats on the switch. The desktop has a nice vibe to it.
Curiously, did you go with UFS or ZFS for your installation?
@Inept@lemmy.world ZFS, and oh boy was that an adventure since my drive was btrfs and i wanted to keep my home and had no way to make a backup of it i had to do some wierd stuff with partions to temporarly have an extra partion to store my home in then install freebsd move files to freebsd and delete the extra partion and resize the zfs one
I asked because you may want to look at adjusting the default ARC settings.
The justification for ARC is that to a server system spare memory is wasted memory, although if you’re like me you won’t like seeing “low memory” messages when all you have open is a terminal.
wallpaper plz
FreeBSD is amazing as a desktop os!
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