I disagree about hardware support on server grade machines. It's very rare that FreeBSD lacks there. many vendors of server-grade hardware (network and storage

I disagree about hardware support on server grade machines. It's very rare that FreeBSD lacks there. many vendors of server-grade hardware (network and storage controllers, etc) have FreeBSD teams and either release their drivers or contribute to the in-tree drivers. With desktop-class hardware (Wi-Fi, input devices, various non-standard USB gadget, setc) the situation is much worse.