Holy fuck, I swear. This is exactly why I tell people that if they think Linux people are delusional, they know absolutely nothing about delusional because they've never seen a fucking *BSD luser try to argue his way out of a wet paper bag and fail.
So the idea that the overwhelming majority of every single place/person/entity that wants a free UNIX-like OS with a choice choosing Linux over *BSD is somehow not valid? Sure, buddy. *BSD had its time to rise up and win over Linux and it did not. It failed because of the reasons I said. It has zero advantages over Linux and so many disadvantages.
Of course, *BSD came first, but even back then, *BSD wasn't the primary system, UNIX and other systems like MINIX and the ones you mentioned were so much more popular than *BSD ever was. But when Linux arrived, *BSD began to die out. *BSD was a poor afterthought, even before Linux. There's a good reason the "*BSD is dying" meme appeared very early in internet culture even back when Slashdot was a huge thing, because it was absolutely based on the reality of the world.
Don't make me laugh about *BSD's "design decisions", ones that basically create a system that is much more difficult to work with because it has a much more simplistic base than the much more robust Linux ecosystem. The idea of separation of base system and packages has nothing to do with efficiency and more to do with a simple design option, something Linux can also do with atomic distributions, which while not quite equal to what *BSD does but has the same idea of separation of base OS and packages, have their certain advantages but aren't flexible enough to do more advanced, low-end system work, which gives Linux an advantage by far.
ESR's Cathedral and the Bazaar arguments have been repeatedly argued against as a good model for Free software development for a very long time, and Linux wins because of more flexible development done by more people but with a very strong and centralized point of vetting said code for most Linux software, which means it's not just "thousands of monkey developers" randomly throwing code at Linux. Your use of ESR as an argument against Linux shows how out of time you are with understanding Free software and how it all works to come together to create a great system.
No one wants to use non-free hardware support, troll.
If Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Meta were caught using GPL against its license, they'd be sued to oblivion and they know it. That's why they don't. If you think GPL is unenforceable, you are a fool. Meanwhile, ALL of those companies are, in fact, using the hell out of *BSD licensed code and you fucking know it. Your garbage development model helps those garbage companies exist.
Your argument is obsolete, and the clowns are all in the *BSD tent.
You are an angry little contarian who hates popular, mainstream things and you are trying to justify it with bullshit. Grow up.
- I don't want to continue this useless conflict, your comments read as if chatgpt wrote them.
  Just a few bits to help you:
  UNIX and other systems like MINIX and the ones you mentioned were so much more popular than *BSD ever was.
  UNIX obviously was more popular than specifically BSD UNIX, but you don't seem to understand that one is a subset of the other. You might want to read of "Unix wars" and how BSD UNIX became just BSD and then a bunch of *BSDs.
  Minix was an education kit.
  No one wants to use non-free hardware support, troll.
  You are, in fact, using mostly non-free firmware, as in "binary blobs", for a lot of your hardware to function under Linux.
  It has zero advantages over Linux and so many disadvantages.
  You keep writing such sentences about four distinct operating systems, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
  Don’t make me laugh about *BSD’s “design decisions”, ones that basically create a system that is much more difficult to work with because it has a much more simplistic base than the much more robust Linux ecosystem.
  This sentence means nothing.
  If Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Meta were caught using GPL against its license, they’d be sued to oblivion and they know it. That’s why they don’t. If you think GPL is unenforceable, you are a fool.
  I said it's enforceable and they are still using it just as "responsibly" and they do with BSD, MIT, ISC licenses, which is the point.
  OK, done
  
  Oh good, now the angry, immature contrarian is accusing me of being a bot.
  You also accusr me of misunderstanding badic shit like how BSD came from UNIX when I never said differently. If you had any reading comprehension, you'd see I said UNIX was still being used at that time OVER *BSD.
  Similar fallacies and bullshit litter the rest of your immature little shit rant.
  I can guarantee I wrote every word of what I say and despise the rise of GenAI and would never use it.
  Can you say the same?
  
  see I said UNIX was still being used at that time OVER *BSD.
  You seem to think Unix is one system. You also seem to think *BSDs are not a branch of Unix.
  You don't seem to learn.
  How old are you and what's your intention in behaving this way? Just interested.
  
  How the fuck do you think I think Unix is one system? What the living fuck is wrong with you, child? I have been around since AT&T UNIX was a fucking thing, you baby. Infant. Child. Poor little fucking hateful, spiteful, baby who can't stand using something that is popular and has to cling to something that he thinks earns him some sort of fake nerd cred. Grow the goddamn up.
  When you speak of something in general terms, like "UNIX", you're not implying it's one thing. This is how language works. Which you would have learned if you actually got to high school and passed your fucking English classes.
  You're just a troll and not worth anyone's time, and you're trying to make me into a troll when all I'm doing is telling you the actual history and truth behind operating systems.
  Here's what you do: you re-read everything I've said, and you don't reply. You take some fucking time to think things over and analyze your life and your pathetic infatuations with things that aren't "popular" because you feel inferior attaching yourself to something everyone else is doing. Several days.
  Then you come back and you apologize. I will be happy to accept it.
  Otherwise, just shut the fuck up if you're not willing to do that. I don't want to hear it.
  
  Plenty of Afghan goat farmers have been around since ATnT Unix was a thing, this doesn't mean they know anything about Unix.
  You've made a lot of factual errors showing that you don't know what you're talking about, you also haven't specified even once which specific period hides under "that time" in your claims.
  You've claimed that Minix ever was a popular system, you've claimed that "BSD" is some alternative to Unix separate from it while it's simply Berkeley Unix that dropped the Unix trademark due to litigation.
  Solaris, HP/UX, Irix are Unix System V, which was sort of a merger of ATnT Unix and BSD.
  So BSDs are literally just Unix (Unix of Theseus so to say, code from BSD that moved to commercial Unix remained there, but code from ATnT remaining in BSD had to be rewritten after the lawsuits, I've read it wasn't much).
  Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems is also one of the main people behind BSD.
  Also throwing insults doesn't make you more persuasive, when you are not even close to knowing the subject. I'm trying to help you, but I don't want to spend more effort.

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