I actually would be scared of anyone being a sysadmin (or devop for that matter) and not know their system very well. Also I actually think it's a community th

I actually would be scared of anyone being a sysadmin (or devop for that matter) and not know their system very well. Also I actually think it's a community thing. What is way stronger in the BSD community is people not being missionaries and wanting to aggregate users as much as you see it in the Linux or MacOS world (not saying that's bad!!!). If you join the BSD community and are like "Why would I use BSD" people will often will be like "Why bother, unless you wanna learn something new? If you don't have a reason for using it, we won't convince you". This is pretty unique to the BSD community. That also means that you are expected to not as dumb questions. I was active in both BSD and Linux communities, and even in the more "know your stuff" communities (Arch and Linux for example) asking dumb questions wasn't frowned upon. Yeah, you may call this elitism. Maybe it is. I don't think so, because there is no "I am too good for answering this" and in general less politics, but then it of course you can't completely deny it, if you are supposed to adhere to the typical "How to ask good questions" guide. And really, it's not that one is better. It certainly isn't. It's a different approach. It more likes me think of how I once watched the Standford Programming Introduction Class and the guy talked about how there is different courses and some are more about being nice and holding your hand at all time and the the other is more pushing. It's a culture thing and just like companies are successful with different cultures you can't say one is better for everyone. Also it depends on what you count your success on. And that can be so many things, having something stable, having great bleeding edge, having a large community, a smart community, having a few big success stories or having everyone use it. One can maybe compare it to a business plan or describing target audiences. Nobody will say that the target audience is wrong. (even though that's more the case when your goal is to make money)