This is pretty much my experience, too, almost word-for-word. I also run OpenBSD on my edge nodes and FreeBSD for most app servers. After using FreeBSD on serve

This is pretty much my experience, too, almost word-for-word. I also run OpenBSD on my edge nodes and FreeBSD for most app servers. After using FreeBSD on servers for about two years, I felt more comfortable with it than I do with Linux after 20 years. A large part of that is FreeBSD's simplicity, consistency, and documentation. It means I can pull on a thread and follow it myself, often without resorting to mailing lists. On Linux, I often feel like I'm trying to piece together information from a variety of sources, sometimes outdated or not applicable to the distro I'm running. BSD feels more cohesive to me, and I think that makes me more self-reliant.