It looks as if you were depending on your zealot friend to help you out and either he didn't know the answers to your questions.. or you just didn't look for them.
With respect to you "3 years debian" time, I'm sure you ran into many problems with debian, unless you just ran the -stable branch which is severly outdated. I'm sorry that your time with FreeBSD was not as easy as apt-get, I'm sorry that you might have to try new things, and _read_ documentaion to make things work. Insted of using some ncurses based app to load the modules for your soundcard.
If DRI and sound are your most important needs and stablility, consistancy, reliabilty, and security are of no value.. then yes go back to debian, please;)
Also if you were having trouble with the ports.. your zealot friend may not have been all what you thought he was.. or again you didn't want to read about them, and how to keep them up-to-date.
In debian you can't install apps from other branches.. so if you want the latest ( when ever they get around to porting it ) apps. You _need_ to run unstable.. (again stability not being what your looking for in an OS..) this would work fine for your needs.
"I could go on for a while now..." Insted of finding things that aren't the same as what you know.. feel free to read up on these things, and broaden your knowledge. It may be hard to fathom.. but your problems aren't problems at all.. just things you don't understand and didn't bother to look for answers to.
Do you really think your the only one that has ever had a "problem" or "confusion" about what you said? Welcome to the technical age where you are not alone and unique in your problems;)
And "FreeBSD is soooo much superior to linux.." because it's consistant. It's not dependent on the current flavor of the insecure linux kernel you happen to be running. Don't forget the whole linux thing is just a kernel with apps; and FreeBSD is a complete OS.
"People that hate Windows; run Linux. People that love Unix; run FreeBSD."
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With respect to you "3 years debian" time, I'm sure you ran into many problems with debian, unless you just ran the -stable branch which is severly outdated. I'm sorry that your time with FreeBSD was not as easy as apt-get, I'm sorry that you might have to try new things, and _read_ documentaion to make things work. Insted of using some ncurses based app to load the modules for your soundcard.
If DRI and sound are your most important needs and stablility, consistancy, reliabilty, and security are of no value.. then yes go back to debian, please ;)
Also if you were having trouble with the ports.. your zealot friend may not have been all what you thought he was.. or again you didn't want to read about them, and how to keep them up-to-date.
In debian you can't install apps from other branches.. so if you want the latest ( when ever they get around to porting it ) apps. You _need_ to run unstable.. (again stability not being what your looking for in an OS..) this would work fine for your needs.
"I could go on for a while now..." Insted of finding things that aren't the same as what you know.. feel free to read up on these things, and broaden your knowledge. It may be hard to fathom.. but your problems aren't problems at all.. just things you don't understand and didn't bother to look for answers to.
Do you really think your the only one that has ever had a "problem" or "confusion" about what you said? Welcome to the technical age where you are not alone and unique in your problems ;)
And "FreeBSD is soooo much superior to linux.." because it's consistant. It's not dependent on the current flavor of the insecure linux kernel you happen to be running. Don't forget the whole linux thing is just a kernel with apps; and FreeBSD is a complete OS.
"People that hate Windows; run Linux. People that love Unix; run FreeBSD."