And also all the other improvements of the Linux world : Vulkan, KDE/Gnome, Wayland, Pipewire, Wine, Proton, Valve, Flatpaks.
And also all the other improvements of the Linux world : Vulkan, KDE/Gnome, Wayland, Pipewire, Wine, Proton, Valve, Flatpaks.
In many ways.
But is it actually faster? Is it better for my use case (AI, Gaming, programming)?
It is amazingly resource-friendly and its SMP is being optimized.
No, for speed and/or gaming, I’d recommend DragonFly BSD (or FreeBSD which has a built-in Linux emulator that could - in theory - run Steam). For development, however, the BSDs are generally quite friendly. Note that the BSDs usually use Clang and a POSIX shell (or tcsh) instead of GCC and bash, so you won’t have GNUisms by default.
In theory you say, so does it run the same applications like my arch install?
Most of them should be available in the native ports/packages. The porters community is rather active. I guess that proprietary applications like Softmaker Office won’t work (they usually refer to specific library versions), but everything else could be worth a try.
That said, FreeBSD and OpenBSD support virtual machines just fine.
I see! What about proton and wine? And what about Nvidia drivers? I’m willing to try it out actually
Wine/Proton: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wine/
NVIDIA: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#NVIDIA_graphics
OpenBSD is not too great at that, but that’s ok.