Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Why Do I Use Linux Instead Of BSD?" video.

  1. Worth noting that there are probably less than half a dozen BSD variants, yet they are sufficiently incompatible with each other that they cannot even share kernel code (cf the WireGuard débâcle). For comparison, the number of Linux distros is not one, but more like two orders of magnitude greater, yet they all manage to share the same core kernel. People sometimes like to refer to the Linux world as “fragmented”. It is not “fragmented”; BSD is.
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  2. Those hundreds of Linux distros are more compatible with each other than, say, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I mention WireGuard because that illustrates the fragmentation problems. Once WireGuard was put into Linux, it was available to every Linux distro. It was also implemented for OpenBSD. But moving that code to FreeBSD opened a whole host of problems, documented in an Ars Technica article.
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  3.  @Sumire973  Which is exactly why I said: the BSDs are fragmented in a way that Linux is not.
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