I think it's just clickbait/being hyperbolic. I imagine the videos themselves are just normal tutorials or intros to the topic.

How'd your 25.11 channel migration go, fellow Nix-enjoyer?

lol yeah Nix is definitely not for everyone, but an insane flexible tool when you know how to use it.

I tried NixOS for a solid month, didn't click for me, so now I'm on gentoo. I'll have to try it again someday.

I was gonna say that’s a long walk to get back to a BSD based system lol

which has a lot of BSD code

But less MacOS.

my WC smells more like lemon, I guess it just depends on what you clean it with

Secure devices for network, routing, firewall.

PF, OpenSSH, LibreSSL was developed by OpenBSD team.

I disagree with some approaches of Linux. Thinking of switching to a BSD.

That's the usecase.

Security and difference of design philosophy. I run OpenBSD on one of my machines and I enjoy it. It has better software availability than I expected and it feels like a neater, more minimal system than Linuxes. Definitely falls into the "hobbyist computing" category rather than something I'd recommend for a practical use case, but it's fun.

Jails, bsd is really good at jails and networking

Cluster computing. DragonflyBSD is structured entirely with a multiprocessing design philosophy, gives amazing cache coherency in Beowulf clusters thanks to the way the scheduler works.

Bit of a niche use case, but if you're doing gpu-unfriendly parallel compute operations like bidirectional path tracing or finite element analysis it really shines.

It's fun to try new stuff.

The documentation is really good, hell they even go over assembly programming. And overall manpages for C functions I like more.

Also good for minimalist setups. Can have a graphical sway environment using vim with autocomplete and a browsing wikipedia while top shows 145Mb active ram.

(Does use cache a lot more than linux tho)

It's for when you're such a contrarian cunt that when you stopped using Mac over windows, you had to move to bsd over Linux.

Like Hyprland AND want to try Niri at the same time? BOOM MangoWC. Been using it for months now. Don't ever see myself going back to Hyprland. Completely bypassed the Niri hype too. It has tiling and scrolling modes. You can toggle between them. Just as smooth as Hyprland without all the bloat. Plus whenever someone says something about some window manger or DE you can now respond, 'no thank you, I'll have the Mango.'

If you stay on X, you can keep using the same window manager for longer. My XMonad config is over a decade old, and I bet my old dwm config.h still compiles.

And careful with those unix systems. Every time someone compiles Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum shaves a raccoon's ass.

Reminds me of the time I ran a FreeBSD webserver from home, compiling Apache from source took the better part of a day. But still good times, learned a lot from that experience.

It serves a fervent purpose and does it well, even if it's not something I *prefer.