I've been using FreeBSD as my main system since version 9.0 (before that ~8years of using linux - slack, arch, crux, suse, debian). Graphics: intel and nvidia

I've been using FreeBSD as my main system since version 9.0 (before that ~8years of using linux - slack, arch, crux, suse, debian). Graphics: intel and nvidia will work fine (well, except you can't switch back to text mode once you load intel module - will be fixed, just not a priority). Wifi: works flawlessly. Multimedia: I use mplayer/emacs. No difference from linux. Flash: Works, sometimes hangs (once a week? I'm use youtube a lot). You will have to remember to manually update your plugins (running nspluginwrapper), if you don't - expect pain. Wine: same as linux, depends on your graphics card support (if playing games). User friendliness: If you can get around in archlinux, you will manage just fine with FreeBSD. Not a technical person/don't like to play with your system? I highly recommend giving PC-BSD a look - imho it is comparable (slightly worse) to openSUSE - you can configure almost everything with a mouse. And the system is fast. Suspend/hibernation: never managed to make it work (thinkpad e320). Other: First of all, I love to tweak. FreeBSD is only *nix I tried that worked well no matter what I changed and worked AS I EXPECTED IT WOULD! Once you configure your system you are done. Expect it to behave properly and not require any fixes because you updated at a wrong time etc. (I hated ubuntu for it - I had to roll back packages manually THREE TIMES! - yes I am spoiled by FreeBSD :D ). You can use ZFS as your root partition. There is almost no documentation and tutorials in the web (compared to linux), the reason for that is EVERYTHING IS DOCUMENTED. Just RTFMan/Handbook. It takes a while to get used to it if you used linux before.