Re: win7 boot stops at disk.sys
  By: Tiny to Sean Dennis on Sat Mar 22 2025 07:50 am

 > Why fight with a bsd when you already know linux?  (I am asking)
 >

The port system you get on any of the three big BSDs blows the package
management of most Linux distributions if you ever need to deploy custom
software (this is, you want to use your own version of a certain package with
your own patches).

I think only Gentoo, CRUX and KISS (and close derivatives) come close, but those
are very unwieldly to use for other reasons. Slackware can kindda do it but you
need to build your full repository of binary packages with slackrepo, which is
out of the scope of what a regular desktop user is willing to do, unless you
want to build and install your custom packages *manually*.

Then there is also the fact that the Linux security frameworks (SELinux,
AppArmor and the like) are not out-of-the-box ready for most desktop
applications, and if you need to adjust them to your needs they suck balls. With
OpenBSD you can just launch Firefox and it is integrated with the OpenBSD
security framework by default.

That off the top of my head for actual practical reasons.






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