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I can't imagine running a system with so few packages, but I do get tempted after seeing that their man-pages actually make sense.
I suppose Void Linux is my middle ground, though the documentation's still in a ridiculous state.
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@justine It's been half a decade since I asked, so maybe they have more. Can you do a standard tiling window manager setup, with lf and the latest yt-dlp? @justine Gah! My arch nemesis. I switched over too soon...twice. It was all broken, and janky, and back I went to X. I need to switch eventually of course. X is dead. Maybe I could do BSD alongside it.  Even on linux, I always install yt-dlp via pipx so I can have the very latest. FreeBSD has tons of packages. I don't think I've ever found a single thing I use that wasn't in their package system, or *easily* compilable. Haven't run it in a while, though, TBH. Mostly on Debian these days, with a little OpenBSD on the side.  @malin @justine Malin, there are over 34K packages in the FreeBSD Quarterly repository, and 35K packages in Latest. Ports collection is still more extensive, plus very very simple to build different versions of apps in an isolated environment far easier and effectively than attempting to do the same on linux distributions. Before spreading misinformation about FreeBSD please review the facts and check out the numbers for the mainline linux distros... really, please look for first hand evidence. I have no idea what you think is 'simple'. 'Spread misinformation'? @winterschon @malin @justine by the way, FreeBSD has more programs, just less packages. Unlike others, we don't do -dev, -doc, so Debian/Ubuntu actually has 1/3rd of what it advertises. |
@malin Hmm I've not found a lack of packages although you have to look at their excellent ports to find more sometimes.