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I have used FreeBSD 12 as the main desktop OS for some time. In general, everything works fine (including NVIDIA drivers, Java, full screen video, sound, and KD

I have used FreeBSD 12 as the main desktop OS for some time. In general, everything works fine (including NVIDIA drivers, Java, full screen video, sound, and KDE5 Plasma desktop). The only problem was that FreeBSD is not officially supported by Jetbrains for their IDEs (so I can’t report bugs), and there are e.g. problems with their Python and Javascript debuggers which I constantly use. So, sadly, I had to switch back to Linux. Other than that, it is an excellent modern OS with e.g. ZFS is fully supported as one of the default installation options (root on ZFS in Ubuntu is still experimental and barely usable).

brobdingnagians 6y ago
This is the main reason why I haven't ditched linux as well. Most of my servers are BSD, but I use the Jetbrains IDEs extensively on my development machine and although most of them work okay on the BSDs, CLion is a complete mess on OpenBSD because a lot of the features use their custom Clangd.
non-entity 6y ago
I would gladly go back to using FreeBSD as a desktop OS if the software support was better. I'm not particularly skilled with either FreeBSD or Linux, but I never can seem to figure out what the hell is going on when Linux breaks, whereas with FreeBSD and NetBSD I've been able to deduce and even drop down and read the kernel source if I have to.