• TheLordHumungus@lemmy.world
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      I find freebsd worked really well for me and it was a really easy transition from Linux. I still did most things GUI as I am still relearning command line (my preferred method). I got everything to function out of the box on a laptop that had a free/libre bios (libreboot). I don’t game on it, I use it primarily for emails, documents, browsing, etc. I was tired of distro hopping and decided to try something completely new.

      Edit: NetBSD can pretty much run on anything. Openbsd is a very secure system.

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        I ran qmail and other services on FreeBSD back in 2001. It’s very solid and battle hardened, but it doesn’t have the widespread support that Ubuntu/Fedora have, although as a pure basic server it doesn’t seem to matter that much with the ports system.

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          I ran it on a Lenovo x200 with libreboot and had no issues, mind you this was only a couple years ago I made the switch. Before that the laptop had debian on it.