BSD’s kernel ABI is not stable. Stability is only attempted in a best-effort basis for a single major version. Like how FreeBSD only tries to ensure kernel ABI stability in Release 14.0 and its updates but upgrading to Release 15 is considered an ABI break.
Still, it’s much better than Linux breaking ABI in every release.
Sharing an anecdote: I lost a 1U server because Linux didn’t spin up the fans while the CPU was under 100% load on all cores.
This never happened in Windows.
I can think of a few reasons on why not BSDs right now:
Unfortunately, the BSDs really are not usable for me right now. Windows definitely works best for everything most of the time, but at this point Linux is my lowest baseline for what makes a usable OS.
These types are a lot more common than you may think they are.
This should be shown to as many people as possible.
Bold of you to assume those Loonixtards even know how to start something like Kubernetes.
Not surprised. The bank app I use overrides even the default GBoard on Android and enforces the use of its own keyboard.
And naturally the Loonixtards will be up in arms against this.
Haiku’s biggest problem is its inability to run most modern web browsers and software. I think the Haiku people recently managed to port Firefox to Haiku but it still doesn’t handle the modern web properly.
And of course, forget about using any kind of productivity software on it if coexistence with MS Office or Adobe is required.
You know the Loonixtards are just trying to make themselves sound more sophisticated and competent than they really are when they call bash commands and scripts “code”.
The fact this post is downvoted here is proof the Loonixtards are everywhere.
If anything, Loonix eats even more ram than Windows or Mac because it completely lacks the proprietary software Windows and Mac users rely on for work every day. SO they end up using web apps and PWAs, like the online version version of MS Office and Adobe tools
Which, as we all know, really only work best under Chrome and Chromium-type browsers.
Simply having one web email client PWA and one browser with a few tabs open will cause any computer with 8GB ram to start swapping.
But of course the Loonixers will never admit to that.
Those people who proudly boast about their Linux desktops are usually the most incompetent in getting their work done.
Speaking from experience.
10 years ago my laptop roasted itself in my bag because the suspend failed to work properly. To this day I still refuse to suspend any of my laptops running Linux. Instead, I shut it down, even if it’s only just a few minutes.
The trauma is real.
I use so-called VPN extensions on Chrome and Edge but at least I have the common sense to make sure the extension is legit and from a known VPN provider before trusting it.
Linus never understood shit.
Being able to put a desktop together and configure the UEFI over a pretty interface has got completely nothing to do with actually understading a shit about computing.
Bet this clown does not know anything about addressing, registers, pointers, etc.
Their elite club of idiocy is best avoided like the plague it is.
Damn right. Every distro builds them goddamned kernel differently. Even glibc and gcc are built differently.
You sure it’s just ‘some’?
You can’t reason with Loonixers. Everything is someone else’s fault except Linux’s.
There’s also a third reason on why not BSD:
Practically all OSS projects assume you are building on Linux. Most complex programmes like LibreOffice, Chromium, Firefox, ffmpeg etc absolutely will not build on the BSDs if you are following the build instructions provided by the projects as-is…
In some instances the failure is caused by something simple like using BSD make instead of GNU make. But unfortunately for the other 99% of the time it’s something very complicated that requires significant patches to the project itself because of assumptions that the project is built against glibc instead of the BSD’s libc, or using gcc instead of llvm and clang, etc.