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An interesting comparison and discussion https://yewtu.be/watch?v=f2e4FNMzyto

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really much of a comparison. They guy loves FreeBSD and shows how easy it is to download and build your packages from source. Then says it is so much better then Linux because that is somehow so much easier to fetch source packages and build them.

This of course ignores that not many people want to do that and that there are standard commands on Debian to do that through the apt system OR that frankly if you wanted to do that a lot you would use a source based distributions like Gentoo or one of the others. And all the while his installer and session looks like where Debian was back in 2000.

So no Linux is not a failure. It is just that FreeBSD does not meet the use patterns and needs of most users. Cool still, but pretty specialized.