Daily driver: macOS, BSD, Linux, or Windows?

[grahamperrin]

You are a fan of one or more BSD os. Is that BSD (doesn't matter which one) your daily driver, your primary OS on your main computer?

A three-day poll by @darth@silversword.online:

• https://silversword.online/@darth/116404948062081788

[AmigaGPU]

I have to answer separately here. My Androids are not rooted so they run bad Android OS which will be closed off in September
In the space I'm currently in
I have

• freeBSD
• ghostBSD
• slitaz {light version of Linux}
• MX {Debian version of Linux} and of course
• ARM Linux on the SBCs

Daily driver Debian (Linux)
#Multi #OS #BSD #ARM #SBC #X86 #Android

[grahamperrin]

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[CiotBSD]

• Daily driver: Debian Sid (Internet, office, gaming, small dev, …)
• OpenBSD servers: NAS, Web, DNS. I'm thinking of migrating the NAS on FreeBSD, because I want a proxmox-like homelab. (NAS, domotic, …)
• OpenWRT routers.

[kpax]

I dove head first into the BSDs (in a sense again after a very long break) in late 2025. I have OpenBSD 7.8 on an old MacBook Pro running 24x7 (playing with pf on it). My main desktop has 4 drives, one each with Windows 11, Linux (Arch), NixOS and yep, FreeBSD 15.0-p5. I probably spend the most time on FreeBSD 65%+ with the remainder shared somewhat equally between NixOS and Arch. I have Windows 11 around only as a backup (because $JOB and in case I bork my *BSD/Linux installations) so I can have something functional on the ready. I'm not ready yet to fully daily drive the BSDs, but everything I've thrown at it so far has been fine for my daily workflow. I hope to make the switch by the time FreeBSD 16 RELEASE rolls around.

[grahamperrin]

Closed. Result:

• 3% Windows
• 22% macOS
• 32% BSD (see the responses in Mastodon)
• 43% Linux.

Additional responses in Reddit:

• Daily driver: macOS, BSD, Linux, or Windows? : r/freebsd