I take your point, but I've used freebsd on a laptop before and never had 3rd party software (like firefox) break after an update. FreeBSD really is stable. For

I take your point, but I've used freebsd on a laptop before and never had 3rd party software (like firefox) break after an update. FreeBSD really is stable. For desktops/laptops I would probably lean towards a linux distro first due to hw support, but FreeBSD being stale/solid is no joke.