> Will it > - support all my hardware including printers and external monitors? That depends on what hardware you're using -- just as it does with Ubuntu, MS

> Will it > - support all my hardware including printers and external monitors? That depends on what hardware you're using -- just as it does with Ubuntu, MS Windows, and MacOS X. > support all file and media formats? Applications do that -- not operating systems. Installing the win32-codecs port on FreeBSD (the basis for PC-BSD) works great for me, though. > have equivalents for all the important software? You are aware that Linux software generally runs on FreeBSD, right? . . . and that FreeBSD has a built-in Linux emulation layer you can enable during installation? . . . and that the FreeBSD ports system (which PC-BSD can use) has more software in it than any Linux distribution's software archives other than Debian?