I've been running FreeBSD for homelab stuff for years now and the documentation is a huge pain point IMO. The handbook is okay, but beyond that it's pretty poo

I've been running FreeBSD for homelab stuff for years now and the documentation is a huge pain point IMO. The handbook is okay, but beyond that it's pretty poor. E.g. every single major upgrade in recent memory has shat the bed. There's always a new reason, at one point it's because I rolled past the 3AM deadline and the periodic scripts absolutely fucked freebsd-update. So this time around I thought it'd be nice to script the 13.x install so I'd have a nice repeatable process. Except the documentation around unattended installs still references sysinstall (which was replaced eons ago) in some parts. After quite a lot of digging I realized the automation story is "roll your own ISO". Nothing that even comes close to kickstart or quickstart in Linux land (geee no wonder AWS adoption is fairly low). So I dug into some stuff that would've made automated installs from a stock ISO easier, got a proof of concept working and fired off an email to one of the names on the current installer (which is still missing features from sysinstall!). And that's where the story ends. I'm ready to get off of this train, and were it not for ZFS I would've already bailed. Don't get me started on the ports tree. I would not run FreeBSD in a production environment without a good reason. If you're already tied to docker that's a great reason to stay with Linux.