I ran FreeBSD as my laptop and desktop OS for many years (1999 - 2006 ?). Regardless of what did and did not work, the keys for me were a working vmware enviro

I ran FreeBSD as my laptop and desktop OS for many years (1999 - 2006 ?). Regardless of what did and did not work, the keys for me were a working vmware environment and a working browser, and around 2005/2006 that no longer existed. vmware 3.x for linux could be installed and run with linux compat on FreeBSD and it worked fine on FreeBSD 4.x, etc., but never did beyond that, and that (important) use case was allowed to rot. We tried[1]. And around that time the browser situation got really bad as well - every web 2.0 website was using flash for everything ... submit buttons, even, and browsing was always a pain after 2004 (I used both opera and firefox). So I had to switch to OSX. But now, I think the browser issue is solved - since everyone is moving away from flash and to HTML5, I would think the browsing experience would be much better ... all that is left is getting a working vmware environment back on FreeBSD, through linux compat. This is relevant, since OSX is just getting weird ... I am going to keep going with snow leopard until that is impossible, but after that ... [1] http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/2007cb.html