It’s not necessarily better, some things are a personal preference. Though some might be able to list some technical pros and cons.
Some things I appreciate are:
base systems and packages are completely separate. Packages and their configuration goes in /usr/local/ No where else. (Thought they might write to /var/ )
bsd init, not systemd. Feels more home to me as a late 90s slackware user.
first class zfs support. Linux has caught up lately, especially now that there is a shared zfs codebase for both Linux and FreeBSD. When I switched to FreeBSD on my home server ~10 years ago that wasn’t the case.
Dude I’m a beginner struggling to learn Linux because there are so many options, so few good explanations, and people like you only want to patronize me
Cool. Then many more people would switch from Linux to BSDs instead. Which is better.
Dumb question but what’s a BSD? What’s the difference?
It’s another libre operating system that is not GNU/linux
wjy would it be better
Its more of a niche. You probably won’t have the huge support you have on gnu/Linux nowadays
“gnu/Linux nowadays” is unusable on old hardware (except distros like Alpine) I think?
There are a bunch of distros focused on old hardware compatibility. I often install Linux on 32 bit laptops from around 2008 and they work perfectly
It’s not necessarily better, some things are a personal preference. Though some might be able to list some technical pros and cons.
Some things I appreciate are:
That research is much easier than figuring out what is computer’s “stack” without using my first language!
Dude I’m a beginner struggling to learn Linux because there are so many options, so few good explanations, and people like you only want to patronize me
I just want a tldr
What a lack of documentation. On BSDs we didn’t suffer that.
BSD is an operating system. It diverged into FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Of course only correct selection is TempleOS.
I don’t think its power is comparable to research unix :)