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It really, really is.

The comprehensive and well-written man-pages are one of the reasons why OpenBSD feels so "complete". In German, you'd say "aus einem Guss", which almost literally translated means "from a single mold".

Linux often feels like a bunch of different things thrown together (which it always was), and the quality, or even just existence, of the documentation differs accordingly.

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This echoes of cathedral vs bazaar…

My thoughts exactly! I'm sick of Linux's disjointedness and impossible to follow OS. I'll see you guys on Windows 11. Peace.

I wouldn't go that far... I've used Linux since the mid-90s, and Windows for a few years longer than that, and Linux is still orders of magnitude easier to follow and especially to dissect than Windows. Windows is pretty much entirely opaque, you're at the mercy of whatever happens behind the curtain. UNIX-y OSes like Linux and OpenBSD blow that curtain wide open, but OpenBSD is just much more consistent because it's all built "in-house". (And then some super popular stuff like OpenSSH gets exported from it.)

At the risk of being hung, drawn, and quartered on hackernews, I actually agree. This seems like such a fringe idea among the "hacker" culture but I find Windows to be significantly more tolerable than the not-so-organized chaos that is modern Linux. And BSD tends not to focus on the out-of-the-box experience, but more on the "customize it exactly the way you want it", archlinux-y vibe. Which is cool but I'd rather have something that just works. Windows checks all the boxes for me, was free through my university, and if I get tired of Powershell I can use WSL.

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