FreeBSD vs Windows

Overview

FreeBSD

Stacks250

Followers196

Votes28

Windows

Stacks1.1K

Followers803

Votes3

FreeBSD vs Windows: What are the differences?

FreeBSD: An operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. An operating system for a variety of platforms which focuses on features, speed, and stability. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large community; Windows: A group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed by Microsoft. A series of personal computer operating systems produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows NT family of operating systems.

FreeBSD and Windows belong to "Operating Systems" category of the tech stack.

FreeBSD is an open source tool with 4.37K GitHub stars and 1.72K GitHub forks. Here's a link to FreeBSD's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Windows has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 33 developers stacks; compared to FreeBSD, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

FreeBSD	Windows
An operating system for a variety of platforms which focuses on features, speed, and stability. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large community.	A series of personal computer operating systems produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows NT family of operating systems.
KMS And New drm2 Video Drivers; Capsicum Enabled By Default; New Binary Packaging System; Unmapped I/O	-
Statistics
Stacks 250	Stacks 1.1K
Followers 196	Followers 803
Votes 28	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 8 Excellent as Server 6 Very Stable 4 Helpful community 2 Ports and packages system is mature and well-supported 2 Extremely simple updates and compiles of kernel and use Cons 1 Poor support for laptops, especially wireless cards 1 Slower to adopt non-server hardware than Linux	Pros 3 Lovely Cons 2 Proprietary 1 Not free to use
Integrations
No integrations available	Firefox Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Slack Windows Terminal Hyper Terminal Google Chrome

What are some alternatives to FreeBSD, Windows?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

Linux

A clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

CoreOS

It is designed for security, consistency, and reliability. Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, it uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many machines.

Gentoo Linux

It is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.