flabberghaster wrote on July 29, 2024 at 2:54 PM

It has the same problems as Linux did in the 2000s, namely small userbase and small developer base mean there's very poor driver support. Finding hardware that will work is not easy.

In my case there was a driver issue with my network card. The working driver had the same name as the broken driver so I had to rename the kernel module and copy my working one in. Not a good user experience.

twovests OP wrote on July 29, 2024 at 2:57 PM

This is the big thing blocking me from trying it even in passing curiosity.

That, and AFAIK the only feature I'm sold on (jails) doesn't have nearly the same support as Docker.

With jails I could probably become a BSD VPS provider in a few weeks of work, but I couldn't do any of the things that I'm liking about Docker.

flabberghaster wrote on July 29, 2024 at 4:06 PM

There is somebody making an OCI implementation for BSD that uses jails instead of Linux containers. There is in principle no reason you couldn't use docker (I call it dorker) or something else like it that would just work roughly the same except that no one has finished implementing it.