Swarm might be a simpler option in the sense that FreeBSD is a simpler option than Linux in some cases (perhaps not the most apt comparison, but bear with me).

Swarm might be a simpler option in the sense that FreeBSD is a simpler option than Linux in some cases (perhaps not the most apt comparison, but bear with me). Sure, by itself it may win out on technical merit in some cases, but: * Nothing you want to use will target it as a supported platform. It may very well work, but you're going to be figuring out how it works yourself. * Most community discussion around general architecture/networking/common problems/workarounds for those problems will be for the other, more popular platform. Again, you'll be blazing your own trail. That all said, figuring how to do this yourself or how to adopt solutions for other platforms can be _fun_. I find it fun. I wish more people found it fun, and believe we'd have a more diverse, vibrant infrastructure ecosystem if most other people also found it fun. In practice, however, I've found that few people find this fun, and those that do have no time to have said fun. Most users I work with ask a combination of "can you provide idiot-proof instructions for this?" and "have other people done this already to hash out the difficult bits?". For a variety of reasons, Swarm lost the popularity war, and so it doesn't matter what, if anything, it does better.