I mean dumbed down as in it pushes you into a framework that is often incomplete because it is made to be "more user friendly", and while often the underlying kernel features are available, activating them will put you in a world of pain because often something will break in the user-friendly layer.

> want to test freebsd really bad, but my knowledge about this is about 0, I don’t think that learning whileI setup my NAS is a good idea.

Yeah I'd not do that either. You'll want to do learn on a spare or on a VM. Not on a live device.

optimism

I want to test freebsd really bad, but my knowledge about this is about 0, I don’t think that learning whileI setup my NAS is a good idea. By what I could see this OS is not newbie friendly.

I followed a linux youtubers to setup using my very cheap hardware – proof of dumb tutorial. It’s a fork of casaOS, so you are right on that.

I had to trust OS maintainers and testers about isolation.

Stop hosting your personal stuff in the cloud. Build $100 own NAS

DarthCoin

I want to test freebsd really bad, but my knowledge about this is about 0, I don’t think that learning whileI setup my NAS is a good idea. By what I could see this OS is not newbie friendly.

>too-dumbed-down OS flavors

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>dependent on maintainers

I followed a linux youtubers to setup using my very cheap hardware – proof of dumb tutorial. It’s a fork of casaOS, so you are right on that.

>1. Isolation on network - you often do this on your router (or non-cheap managed switch)

I had to trust OS maintainers and testers about isolation.