In January, I switched to #FreeBSD on my work laptop (#Thinkpad X240). And what can I say, it has been glorious.
It's a bit like #Archlinux with even better documentation, but no #systemd, #polkit, #consolekit, #dbus, #pulseaudio or all that other crap that makes life miserable under #Linux these days.
My stack is #i3wm with #Firefox as main browser, #mutt/#thunderbird for email, #urxvt with #fish as $SHELL and #mpv for music/media, all atop a fully #encrypted, native #zfs pool. What's yours?
@benthor Sounds pretty!
I'm still running #Archlinux, and I've generally not run into problems with #systemd. I like systemd services very much, but I see why folks have difficulties with the all-encompassing systemd monster.
My stack is otherwise like yours: #i3wm with #Firefox for personal browsing (and #chrome for frontend-development), #mutt for email, #urxvt with #zsh, but only on top of an #encrypted ext4. Feels fairly comfortable right now.
@rixx @benthor My case is pretty similar to rixx, but chromium/torbrowser, thunderbird and btrfs instead. I have been happy with this for years and see no reason to change (yet).
I had an old powerpc with some kind of BSD on it long ago for testing purposes, but compiling took ages because of the slow processor and it completely ruined the fun, so I dropped the experiment. Might try it on my next machine, though. 😊