It was a sincere question and I found your comment quite off-putting. You're talking to someone who spent a month in college installing every free OS I could g

It was a sincere question and I found your comment quite off-putting. You're talking to someone who spent a month in college installing every free OS I could get my hands on (including the BSDs). I find alternate operating systems interesting, but haven't played with them much lately. I compare other free Unixes to Linux because I use Linux every day and it's what I know. It's interesting to think of hypothetical scenarios where an alternative to Linux might be more compelling to me for some reason (eg. is OpenBSD objectively more hardened than Linux? Is NetBSD objectively more portable? etc.)