FreeBSD is great, if your hardware is supported. And unfortunately, that's a giant IF. I wanted to try jails on a 2011 HP DL380 G7, which is enterprise level h

FreeBSD is great, if your hardware is supported. And unfortunately, that's a giant IF. I wanted to try jails on a 2011 HP DL380 G7, which is enterprise level hardware. I had to jump through several hoops to even get off the ground. Apparently FreeBSD didn't come with power management out of the box. So I had to learn about powerd, Intel Speedstep, and CPU C-states (but hey, it comes with a mail server pre-installed). And even then I was having issues. So I gave up and installed Alpine Linux, which worked perfectly with no extra config. I learned LXD instead. Since then, I've replaced that behemoth of a server with a couple low power, tiny desktops running Debian (bookworm has LXD in the default repos now). I didn't actually look, but I'm fairly certain FreeBSD wasn't going to play nice with Intel's QuickSync and GPU passthrough to jails like Debian/LXD does. Anyways, that's always been my biggest hurdle with FreeBSD. I do like the cohesiveness of all their tooling though.