Good Evening All,
A business associate of mine recommends OpenBSD over FreeBSD. In my
experience the FreeBSD ports have degraded significantly in quality the
last 1-2 years and I've become frustrated as a result.
FreeBSD (rev 10.*) was a stable platform for me. It's just that the
ports have lost their quality. I started spending more time fixing,
rather than using my system, regardless if the port was precompiled or
built from source. I need a stable development (C/C++) system that can
also do well in multimedia. I also have significant hearing loss from an
old military injury (mortar attack). I used the parametric equalizer
under FreeBSD to tweak the sound output so I could understand things
that were spoken in online videos. Now that I have retired, I spend a
lot of time on YouTube, Hulu, and occasionally NetFlix, yet I still do
side-projects that involve video editing and software development.
I went to FreeBSD when 10.0 came out due to Linux' systemd debacle.
Linux is no longer an option since systemd. I have had way too many
problems with it. I will no longer fight with/use it.
I have changed out my NVidia GTX-660 GPU to a AMD RX 480 GPU. I know
that NVidia is not a friend of Linux, and especially the BSD's.
I am not asking the community to comment about my hardware, I've already
done my homework. I see the ports that I need in the ports tree of
OpenBSD, so I know that the software I need is there. What I am asking
the community for, are comments on the suitability of OpenBSD for my
usage paradigms.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Dave
