On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Judah Richardson wrote: <snip>
I run both of the above, in addition to 3 release channels of Windows, 3 Linux distros, and Android, because I love OSes and am fascinated by the different approaches various projects take to solve the same problems. You'll learn a lot regardless of which one you choose.
Absolutely! This is my experience too - I originally started with Linux in the early 90's and then added Solaris, Ultrix, Digital/Tru64 UNIX, OpenSolaris. OI/Illumos, FreeSBD and OpenBSD in roughly that order. As a sys admin working for a number of organisations where I need lots of xterms open on a multi-screen set-up, I use FreeBSD + ZFS + fvwm2 window manager nearly all the time as a desktop O/S and it works fine for me, occasionally switching to OpenSUSE (or Unbuntu) + mate for 'officey' stuff like Teams and Zoom meetings, etc.
I still look after some Sun SPARC kit running Solaris 9 & 10 plus a few OI Intel/AMD-powered servers running ZFS where the clients tell me they feel "there is something solid & dependable about Solaris" and its descendants compared with Linux or FreeBSD. At the same time, by default I tend to use FreeBSD + ZFS for new storage, web & email servers and Ubuntu Linux server edition for compute/HPC systems as there's so much more scientific & specialist software available for that platform. (And OpenBSD is great for network applications - routers, firewalls, VPN boxes, etc).
The important thing really is not to get stuck in a O/S rut, especially in today's employment/economic environment. I've seen too many people train up exclusively on Red Hat only to find they're unemployable in other Linux environments, never mind in OI or FreeBSD-related roles.
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