From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

https://fossforce.com/2025/04/freebsd-wants-to-know-a-few-things/

The FreeBSD Core Team and the FreeBSD Foundation have a few
questions it would like to ask its users.

What this means is that it’s survey time at FreeBSD… again.
In other words, 2024’s user survey turns out not to have been
the one-off we thought it was, and the FreeBSD Community
Survey is looking like it’s going to become an annual event.

. . .

The main prob with Free/Open/Net these days is
a very obscure path to a quasi-decent user
interface.

Few WANT just the CL approach anymore - and it
is slow and clunky and error-prone. Requires
just TOO much study ... so most move to a Linux
instead.

Yea, yea ... I understand "command-line macho", how
to prove you're a system genius. However 99% of us
are just TIRED of that ... it's like buying a Stanley
Steamer instead of a Corvette.

Hmm, remember Jay Leno burnt off his eyebrows and
a bit more trying to light-up his Stanley a few
years ago :-)

Not all that MUCH is required ... an easy install
of XFCE or LXDE and their tools. That'd do it.

And for ALL the gods sake, NOT Gnome like RHEL/Centos !!!

I've been using Ghost for a few things ... it is
*much* more user friendly. Productivity zooms.
Still BSD under the hood.

Linux ... seems to be getting weirder of late. BSDs
are a much more solid core. Esp for public servers,
they maybe ARE your best choice. Even if you're dim
enough to use 'virtual servers' from some 'cloud'
place, SEE if they have a BSD.

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