My perspective as someone who is mostly a desktop user/dev and rarely dives into server related issues other than setting up a home network and maybe sshing int

My perspective as someone who is mostly a desktop user/dev and rarely dives into server related issues other than setting up a home network and maybe sshing into a server somewhere in the magical cloud: * The BSDs feel more elegant, the Linux distributions feel more complete/up to date (and are probably more performance optimized due to enterprise embrace but that's only speculation on my part). * I sympathize with the BSD license philosophy and agree that the BSD-license is in theory freer but don't care too much either way * OpenBSD is awesome (yes even for desktops, with the right hardware) and I install it every now and then but ultimately I'm too familiar with Linux to switch. I do like that they keep fighting the good security fight, don't care about supposed personality quirks of some devs. Keep up the good work * At the end of the day I use Linux because that's what I grew up with and it tends to "just work" (for the record all BSDs I installed in recent memory pretty much worked out of the box). I am kind of forced to use OS X at work but other than that it's Linux on all machines. The parents also use it by now.