So I’m about to get a new laptop (likely 13th gen intel) since my current one is breaking down. Currently I run Arch Linux on my device and is looking into FreeBSD or OpenBSD as the OS. Mainly because once I tried to look into the Linux kernel and can’t believe the amount of spaghetti in it. I’ve read a little bit of Free and OpenBSD kernels. They look a lot nicer. And I travel a bit with my laptop to visit a few infosec conferences. I hear the BSDs have a more solid kernel then Linux (I know BSDs are OSs).
I’m use my laptop to browse the internet, remote into my boxes to code and email. And I tried to use both in VM and feels ok with them.
Can experienced BSD users share some pitfalls and why or why not to use BSD?
Honestly, if you want to try it to tinker, it’s awesome, but you will need to compile from source a lot, and troubleshooting is harder without the big community. This makes it a bit impractical for a daily driver
It’s very similar to using linux in the 2000’s