I've heard it's not friendly with heavy browsers like Firefox. I'm looking to switch, and have been examining if it's worth it, FreeBSD vs OpenBSD. What do you mean?
If you're new to BSD systems, a FreeBSD-based distro like TrueOS or GhostBSD is probably the best place to start. Desktop software runs great on FreeBSD. You can later experiment with a from-scratch FreeBSD install, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, etc and decide what works best for you.
The performance difference between FreeBSD / DragonFlyBSD and Linux is very small to non-existent - depending on your hardware. Some of the difference is due to different compilers used to build the system (GCC vs Clang), since a lot of CPU-intensive software was specifically optimized under Linux and GCC. OpenBSD can also be slower due to absence of a modern FS, conservative memory management, and other trade-offs of the security-first design. You can read benchmarks (like from Phoronix, ex), but the only ones that matter are how those OSes perform on your hardware and for your specific needs.
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0 u/BitChuteArchive 12 Mar 2019 07:05
https://www.bitchute.com/video/auN2jHXl3pNe
0 u/libman 15 Mar 2019 00:12
OpenBSD is a much freer (as in freedom) system than anything based on Linux, but the performance isn't always so great...
0 u/Nalbarcam [OP] 15 Mar 2019 00:45
I've heard it's not friendly with heavy browsers like Firefox. I'm looking to switch, and have been examining if it's worth it, FreeBSD vs OpenBSD. What do you mean?
0 u/libman 15 Mar 2019 03:05
If you're new to BSD systems, a FreeBSD-based distro like TrueOS or GhostBSD is probably the best place to start. Desktop software runs great on FreeBSD. You can later experiment with a from-scratch FreeBSD install, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, etc and decide what works best for you.
The performance difference between FreeBSD / DragonFlyBSD and Linux is very small to non-existent - depending on your hardware. Some of the difference is due to different compilers used to build the system (GCC vs Clang), since a lot of CPU-intensive software was specifically optimized under Linux and GCC. OpenBSD can also be slower due to absence of a modern FS, conservative memory management, and other trade-offs of the security-first design. You can read benchmarks (like from Phoronix, ex), but the only ones that matter are how those OSes perform on your hardware and for your specific needs.