For me, it comes down to what's usable to do my work. Today, I can pick a regular Windows laptop and have a decent experience with it on Linux, whereas with Fr

For me, it comes down to what's usable to do my work. Today, I can pick a regular Windows laptop and have a decent experience with it on Linux, whereas with FreeBSD it is likely that WiFi/BT won't work, GPU acceleration might not work, software is likely to be out of date compared to rolling release Linux distros, then there's the whole WireGuard fiasco[1] and an apparent disregard for code quality, no Docker, no k8s, slow boot times, no ability to play AAA games, non-declarative init etc. etc. If I were to run a BSD on a server or a router, it would most likely be OpenBSD as that at least has the security aspect going for it. FreeBSD seems like Linux, but from 2006. 1 - https://lwn.net/Articles/850098 https://lwn.net/Articles/850098