They still can't seem to get BTRFS working anywhere nearly as well as ZFS on FreeBSD. Plus, you get a lovely init structure with no Systemd garbage. I love it.
I just put FreeBSD in a VirtualBox instance within Windows. The support for mounting a Windows folder in FreeBSD is lacking. That's a VirtualBox + FreeBSD issue. The same feature works fine with VirtualBox + Linux.
That being said, there are workarounds such as 'scp'. In all other respects, I like being on FreeBSD. I have an XFCE desktop configured on it, and it is nice and fast.
Also, if you just installed FreeBSD directly on the computer, you would not have to worry about VirtualBox. I would have done that if I had been starting a fresh PC.
Linux still playing catch up. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Serious question: Haven't touched FreeBSD in probably 7-8 years. Worth at least looking again?
Was looking at using that as my primary OS for house server. Away from GENTOO.
Re:Linux still playing catch up. (Score:2)
That being said, there are workarounds such as 'scp'. In all other respects, I like being on FreeBSD. I have an XFCE desktop configured on it, and it is nice and fast.
Also, if you just installed FreeBSD directly on the computer, you would not have to worry about VirtualBox. I would have done that if I had been starting a fresh PC.