>no distro maintainers that constantly change stuff.
This is one of those things that mom-Linux people think but isn't really true. I can think of two episodes in the last decade (systemd and Wayland) that constituted controversial changes but frankly there are people who make "not using systemd" their entire identity and it's just so much cringe.
Even on a rolling release bleeding edge distro like Fedora things really don't change that much at all.
>I don't view my OS as a hobby, but I do want to have full control over it and to be able to understand how it works.
FreeBSD doesn't afford you any more or less control over how the system works than Linux.
> FreeBSD doesn't afford you any more or less control over how the system works than Linux.
And yet, I'm constantly patching and working around lib issues on Linux (on the desktop), but never with FreeBSD. That's the point being made. Linux is a lot of stuff mashed together to make a system, and it works really well, but FreeBSD is a collection of components carefully curated and maintained as one and works very, very well most of the time.
If Linux works for you, use it. No one is trying to convert you.
Ah, mom-Linux: the only distro where the kernel scheduler runs on WINE, sudo doesn't actually give you real permissions, your /home directory is routinely cleaned without your permission, and the parent process always knows what the child process is up to.
This is one of those things that mom-Linux people think but isn't really true. I can think of two episodes in the last decade (systemd and Wayland) that constituted controversial changes but frankly there are people who make "not using systemd" their entire identity and it's just so much cringe.
Even on a rolling release bleeding edge distro like Fedora things really don't change that much at all.
>I don't view my OS as a hobby, but I do want to have full control over it and to be able to understand how it works.
FreeBSD doesn't afford you any more or less control over how the system works than Linux.