>The ports selection in FreeBSD is second to none. Linux has nothing close. Well... I don't know about that. The Debian repositories seem quite close to that o

>The ports selection in FreeBSD is second to none. Linux has nothing close. Well... I don't know about that. The Debian repositories seem quite close to that offering, at least by their breadth. Arch Linux's core repositories offer a high quality up-to-date minimal set, while their community and AUR repos offer a very wide set of 3rd party software, even if the latter is not always reliable. Even though I like a lot about FreeBSD, I always found the ports the most awkward and error-prone part of it. And it's far too flexible, which for me was not worth the burden.