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The current status? If you're considering doing anything serious with Unix, absolutely you should use Linux. No question. Don't waste your time with any BSDs.

But ... if you want to teleport back to the 90s and go back to an era before Linux took off on a rocket ship to universal dominance then the BSD are for you. You will find a much more curated experience when people thought that documentation mattered. It is the road less traveled.

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Serious like a great file system that is ZFS?

And dozens of critical bugs because it's basically the X.org of filesystems, complete with horrible quality C and half of Solaris tacked to it in the form of a shim?

I don’t think this is the dick swinging contest you want to have with respect to Linux.

Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about.

You should read up on it. ZFS is great.

> you should use Linux

Too bad the _fat_ penguin was not a lie. Linux has become a diabetic infected with cangrene wounds.

Trying to make the kernel smaller (by removing modules/features) results in non bootable system.

> If you're considering doing anything serious with Unix, absolutely you should use Linux. No question. Don't waste your time with any BSDs.

Can you expand on that?

Compared to Linux, all of them lag pretty badly in one or multiple areas (performance, features, hardware support, available software...).

They can be excellent in very, very niche use-cases. I run my personal site on openbsd, because I want to do minimal admin for what is a super-basic setup; but that's it.

I do my “serious” stuff with FreeBSD and my gaming on Linux.

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