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In my experience that only comes into play with Laptops. FreeBSD supports pretty much any server or desktop hardware an organization or person has. Also FreeBSD

In my experience that only comes into play with Laptops. FreeBSD supports pretty much any server or desktop hardware an organization or person has. Also FreeBSD has never made Laptop support a goal of the operating system, FreeBSD is primarily a server operating system for which it does a great job.

umanwizard 8y ago
Counterpoint: FreeBSD doesn’t support CUDA which would be a deal-breaker for a lot of people. This seems to be NVidia’s fault rather than the FreeBSD project’s, though.
chousuke 8y ago
My experience has been that FreeBSD in particular has issues with graphics drivers. My 2015 desktop with a (at the time) mid-range Radeon card is only barely stable (took some fiddling with ports) in the latest 12 release. I hear Nvidia is better, but I refuse to use proprietary drivers. I didn't really find that FreeBSD offered any advantage on the desktop over Linux, and features like browser sandboxing seem to (understandably) be lagging behind. Lots of people are running away from Linux because of systemd, but that's a non-issue for me. It works just fine. Curiously enough OpenBSD works perfectly OOtB, but in the end I returned to Fedora anyway because there's no support for Wine or Steam. I'd prefer it over FreeBSD though since I like the design of the base system better.