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> It is easier to copy a solution to a linux problem from stack overflow than to read the FreeBSD handbook, understand the problem and fix it. I'm (a little) ashamed to admit tech support via trolling. Linux sucks because you can't even [whatever]. It is nice to get a quick response of "it's just [whatever], noob". Although, that was a last resort. I've met a couple of people that reread man pages every year, i've ne…
> It is nice to get a quick response Indeed, it is. But one won't learn anything of value. One just learns the solution to a very specific problem. If one chooses to learn the basics, more often than not one will decide that it is quicker to dive into the problem and fix it than to "troll" tech support.
Recently I found my only machine running FreeBSD (as a testing machine) was kernel crashing occasionally. On a whim I googled ' kernel crash', and found a page which discussed an extra linux boot-time flag I had to add, to disable some feature of the graphics card. I couldn't figure out how to do the same thing on FreeBSD, so just switched to Debian, and added the magic option. No more crashes. Now the machine runs a FreeBSD VM on top of linux.