I started to abandon Mac around 10.6 and ended up on Linux unintentionally. I tried really really hard to like FreeBSD, and I did like it... It's not just a se

I started to abandon Mac around 10.6 and ended up on Linux unintentionally. I tried really really hard to like FreeBSD, and I did like it... It's not just a server OS it's true! but omg the hardware support, that made me truly appreciate that the common denominator of an Desktop OS being useable: is hardware support... it doesn't matter how amazing the OS is abstractly, you need drivers to appreciate it. I even started going down the road of submitting driver patches, and I am no OS programmer. That's how dedicated I was to making it work - but there's just too much to do. I know if you are super careful you can buy hardware for *BSD but even then it's unlikely you will get support for everything in the BSDs, Linux just has support for so much out of popularity, and in a closed hardware world unfortunately that is what makes a Desktop OS usable (without even getting into DE/WM stuff).