My experience with FreeBSD mirrors the author's quite a bit. I bought that same book, installed it on a system, struggled like hell and went through it cover t

My experience with FreeBSD mirrors the author's quite a bit. I bought that same book, installed it on a system, struggled like hell and went through it cover to cover. It was my "daily driver" for probably 5-6 years after that. The experience got me a job at an ISP running FreeBSD and later I started a web hosting business with FreeBSD backing. I love it and love how easy and simple it is, but I too had to stray into Linux because that's where the crowd went. Hardware and software availability are key factors. I also think they should drop the focus on Desktop and go towards servers. I've never administered servers that were as painless as those old BSD boxes. There is so much value in things that "just work" and documentation that's accurate. Yes there's a learning curve but it pays off exponentially. Linux is being plagued by too many choices and too much change. RTFM doesn't do you a lot of good when it's out of date. It's only my decades of experience that help me figure things out when problems arise, I'd hate to be a beginner with Linux now. While Linux on the server is pretty tame the desktop world is out of control. I would like to see the FreeBSD folks just focus on making it the server/container host of choice.