Ask HN: Anyone moved to PC-BSD (TrueOS) from macOS?
About four years ago I moved all of my personal computers away from proprietary operating systems, with most of my laptops running Linux, and one running PC-BSD.<p>PC-BSD is very good, but there are some weird quirks compared to Linux.  For example, I have still never really figured out how to get my screen-brightness to adjust properly, and none of my laptops&#x27; integrated WiFi seem to work out of the box with any BSD.  The latter problem I have been able to solve by cheap USB wifi dongle, and the the former I just haven&#x27;t solved since this laptop doesn&#x27;t need a particularly good battery anyway.<p>However, there are some nice perks to having a system that runs on ZFS.  Due to its frequently-snapshotting nature, it&#x27;s much easier to do risky stuff without having to worry about nuking the whole system, since you can always revert to the previous snapshot (kind of like Git).<p>I also have come to really appreciate the ports system, especially after I started doing a lot of stuff with video processing (specifically FFMpeg). Being able to have freshly compiled packages, whilst still having them managed by a package manage (which happily resolves compile-time dependencies), is incredibly useful, and makes it kind of hard to go back to Linux (though I hear Gentoo might be up my alley).<p>Overall, the transition isn&#x27;t terribly hard, but I wouldn&#x27;t recommend it if you don&#x27;t want to get down in the weeds of the system.  I enjoy that stuff, and I suspect most of the HN audience does too, so I recommend trying it out.