I am a man that likes UNIX. I am a security-minded person (paranoid to your average normie), with great ambitions about the future of the world. It is pleasant to meet you all, god bless!
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I do prefer C, due to its simplicity alone. I think that rewriting programs in Rust, or C++, just because “they are better” would be an unwise descision.
Don’t get me wrong, I do believe they are great languages, however, sometimes you must count your merits, and choose the best tool for the job.
I think I left Google just in the nick of time.
My Google usage has stopped entirely (exept through alt frontends), and I also deleted my Google account. They will continue to promote their needless services, and even shove it down your throats. I wish good luck for us all, since Google will most likely continue to do this, and attempt to enact further restrictions upon the internet.
Using FreeBSD for desktop is a good experience. If you are a web developer, it has everything you need. It is very stable. (only crashed when I first used it, due to outdated graphics drivers at the time?)
It also suspends properly on my computer. It is a PC from 2014, and it runs pretty fast. (This is a computer that Windows 10 runs horrific on due to spinny drive).
I would say most Linux programs are supported through binary compatibility. I don’t generally use Wine (Windows emulator), however it is supported.
FreeBSD has most of the programs that I would use on Linux, natively on their repos. However, they may be out of date compared with something like Arch. Also, using the terminal is almost the same as on Linux.
Overall, I have had a good experience. Setup is easy, however, it does require a bit of reading, and it is a manual setup (which I think is a good thing). It is not quite like Arch though, so don’t worry ;)
Who doesn’t like compounding two words with different meaning by definition, but for some inexpiable reason have the same meaning in the programming world, by shortening them?
Now the poor, average programmer has to deal with strange words. One such example is “permission,” which is normally used within a casual context, rather then within a more serious context, like a program handling secure data. The poor programmer can now no longer take his job seriously, and is now forever in an existential crisis, due to the lack of formality. ;)
I would use VIM, personally. It may take some getting used to, but once you get it, it can be very useful. (VIM does have syntax highlighting, by the way)