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What reasons would you give to a GNU/Linux savvy desktop user to start using #BSD besides sheer curiosity / knowledge?
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@kzimmermann I don't know that there's much else to give them. Over the years, they've made different choices, so there may be something about one Unix-like OS that makes it fit someone better than another one. The only way to know for sure is to try a few different ones (whether GNU+Linux or BSD or Minix or something derived from the former OpenSolaris effort).
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@canary that is such a great point. Freedom 3 to modify and redistribute is so overlooked by users who just want free stuff.
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@dogjaw but don't the security issues beneath the OS (like Intel ME) undermine these?
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@dogjaw that's true. Still, quite impressive about OpenBSD not having any vulnerabilities listed there.