In my experience FreeBSD performance and security are great but not significantly better than linux. ZFS support on freebsd seems better than linux certainly it

In my experience FreeBSD performance and security are great but not significantly better than linux. ZFS support on freebsd seems better than linux certainly its been supported a lot longer, bhyve works really well for virtualising freebsd and linux never tried it with windows. The biggest strength is the ports / package manager works better than anything I have tried on linux and it sticks to unix principles closer than linux. The biggest weakness for freebsd is docker and mono support is very poor. There is a desktop distro but in general any gui stuff linux beats freebsd hands down I only use freebsd for server stuff. I use it for production web servers, backup / storage servers, routers, virtualisation servers. I find its rock solid and more consistent than linux.