I gave it the old college try a few years ago out of some weird retro desire to use something "cool" like when I first found Linux in the late '90s. It was an o

I gave it the old college try a few years ago out of some weird retro desire to use something "cool" like when I first found Linux in the late '90s. It was an obnoxious hassle nearly every step of the way, but I stuck with it as long as I could stomach. I did what felt like some pretty substantial work trying to update a port, and my issue just sat with no responses for months until someone else came along and independently re-did the work for a newer release. The running joke about Linux is that next year is perennially the "year of the Linux desktop", but by comparison, FreeBSD feels like it's a decade away from achieving that kind of maturity outside of the server/middlebox space.