7 engineers on Hacker News describe using BSD first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I have been using computers for over 30 years, and each and every one has issues, bugs, finicky bits that suck the life out of you”
regret · personal · 28304283409234 · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I prefer BSDs for servers being they are arguably more stable”
endorse · personal · forca · 2014-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've always thought that BSD is superior from an admin perspective, as in it's easier to do it right and keep it solid.”
endorse · production · jedberg · 2014-08-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can do work on the computer running BSD/Linux, save it in a text-only format”
neutral · personal · 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is also why I have a Mac, a couple of Windows PCs, a Linux workstation, and a BSD laptop.”
neutral · personal · morganvachon · 2021-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“everything else is on bsd so you can probably guess my opinion on systemd”
neutral · production · wibble10 · 2019-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using GNU/Linux and BSD on my personal machines since 2000”
neutral · personal · 18 yr · krylon · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?