Let's talk about Linux/BSD

How many of you guys are familiar with UNIX operating systems? I use GNU/Linux as my main OS, but I have Windows when I need it for school.

What OS do you use? If Linux, what distribution do you use? If BSD, what branch?

I use Manjaro, but mainly because I can access the AUR, which offers a huge selection of software. If I didn't need the AUR, I'd probably use Debian.
However, I also reaallly like FreeBSD, because of it's cleanliness and organization. I only use it in a VM, however, because FreeBSD isn't compatible with some programs that I have on Linux. I hope someday I could become a regular contributor to FreeBSD.

I haven't tried out OpenBSD yet but I will soon, I already have the image downloaded. I also want to test out Plan9 or whatever the continuation of it is, because it looks interesting.

Once I actually configured some Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Arch to work alongside Android, as a "chroot." Which basically means I installed an OS inside a folder on Android, and configured that folder to work as an independent OS. I wish I could do that for FreeBSD but it's incompatible with the Android kernel. Also, there's a different sort of app called "Termux" which is even better.

I'm kinda ranting here but I'd like to hear from you, reader!

 

Nice!

Yeah, I also chose it because my name begins with an M and it could also go for "Master" from my profile name.

I don't blame you.

 

macOS intrigues me but I haven't had access to a laptop with it yet to tinker with, those laptops are so expensive! But I find it cool they use parts of FreeBSD in there, and that it is generally POSIX compliant.

Why do you think macOS isn't becoming a good gaming platform like Linux will be in some years? It seems to have been time-tested as a reliable Operating System.

 

I've gotten into this phase where I'm pretty interested in FreeBSD again. I just installed it on one of my USB flash disks, so I can plug it in and boot on different computers. I've also figured out how to boot that USB drive on a VirtualBox machine, but in this case there are some errors launching Xorg, so the virtualization is console-only. I had to (by reinstallation) disable the swap on the drive though, because the drive was getting more hotter than it should have. Swap is not a good thing to have on a USB flash drive.

I dunno, maybe I will update my avatar to a FreeBSD one. Linux works for me, but FreeBSD just interests me much.

 

Like the rest said. LibreOffice!

Also there are some lesser-known office suites out there. Usually a quick search on a search engine brings up results like this. Judging from appearance alone, WPS Office looks nice, but I've never used it before. It looks like you have to download the package from their website and install it by hand, if you use Ubuntu/Debian. On Arch, and derivatives like Manjaro, you can install the AUR package wps-office using your favorite helper.