I think it's time for me to take one of the BSDs for a spin.
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I think it's time for me to take one of the BSDs for a spin.
What's the hardware support situation like? Worse than Linux, or about the same, or about the same but slower?
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I think it's time for me to take one of the BSDs for a spin.
What's the hardware support situation like? Worse than Linux, or about the same, or about the same but slower?
@ajroach42 I bet @peteorrall or @stefano might have an opinion on that. 😅
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@ajroach42 I bet @peteorrall or @stefano might have an opinion on that. 😅
@SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano
The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. #FreeBSD is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern #Unix. #NetBSD is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. #OpenBSD is security-focused. #DragonflyBSD is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.
Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME #XFCE are all supported and #nvidia releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, #Linux may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.
FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.
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@SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano
The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. #FreeBSD is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern #Unix. #NetBSD is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. #OpenBSD is security-focused. #DragonflyBSD is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.
Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME #XFCE are all supported and #nvidia releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, #Linux may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.
FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.
@peteorrall @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 well said, Pete. There's not much I could add. Note that the modern suspension to ram isn't currently supported, but they're working on it
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@peteorrall @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 well said, Pete. There's not much I could add. Note that the modern suspension to ram isn't currently supported, but they're working on it
@stefano @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42
Thank you!
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@peteorrall @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 well said, Pete. There's not much I could add. Note that the modern suspension to ram isn't currently supported, but they're working on it
@stefano @SrRochardBunson @ajroach42
I will add the #FreeBSD team has made *significant* efforts to improve the desktop experience, particularly on laptops. Each release just gets better.
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@andycarolan £100 a month for these three?!?! OMGGGGGGGGG 😱
This is precisely why I switched to Pixelmator Pro for graphics and DaVinci Resolve for video editing.
These prices are extortionate!!!
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@bbacc che versione di office?
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@Iloo thanks! Most people on the Fediverse will already be familiar with privacy and FOSS tools we'll recommend. But we think the podcast could be great for Fedi people's spouses, parents, siblings, cousins and friends who think that adopting these tools is "too hard" or "too time consuming".
Oh and the cherry on top is that we plan to use @Castopod for it 🤗
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… E tutto questo aggratis!!!
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@_elena I have looked into it on a few occasions, and was close to moving to Affinity. But then Canva bought them.
I remember you saying about AE. It's definitely most people's go-to app for that kind of thing.
Even between just Adobe, Webflow and Quickbooks, I'm paying over £100 a month 😩
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@_elena Would definetely listen to a podcast like that 🤩
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@andycarolan every once in a while some creator does a show & tell of tools they adopted as alternatives to Adobe. I know it's super hard to quit it... in my domain, I argue there is no sophisticated alternative to AfterEffects, especially when it comes to the wealth of ready-made templates. I'm lucky I'm basically on a filmmaking hiatus so I don't have to deal with that...
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My customer wanted a feature that involves AI integration. The contractor responsible for it handed this task to a couple of interns back in October, and now they made a merge request for this feature that includes 400+ commits and 250+ changed files.
