> IMO, FreeBSD and variants still don't cut it at this time for desktop. Sadly, I agree. My experience running FreeBSD on a laptop has been terrible. I do have

> IMO, FreeBSD and variants still don't cut it at this time for desktop. Sadly, I agree. My experience running FreeBSD on a laptop has been terrible. I do have one ancient laptop running OpenBSD that works perfectly. But due to the smaller number of developers and less enthusiastic support by hardware companies, hardware support is far behind Linux. On the server, this is less of an issue, because there is less hardware to support, and virtualization, it becomes even easier.