[gkya]

I'm 23, I used GNU/Linux since I was 11, and about at the beginning of this year (2016) I switched to FreeBSD. It was the first time I had an easily and consistently configurable, recreatable, understandable, enjoyable PC system that went out of the way once configured. It is so pleasurable that I don't even care I can't suspend and hibernate yet, even though I'd hardly turn of my computer and my workflow used to rely on having my laptop on for ten-twenty days and reboots were seldom and because of me forgetting to plug the thing in, or I updated the system. Also, I updated from 10.2 to .3, and it was the most pleasurable, most silent and non-destructive update I ever did. I just merged from /etc and /usr/local/etc to my config repo, and good to go (I have two scripts to copy back and forth the config files into my repo). I expect a mass migration to BSDs to happen soon. They are decent desktops, and soon they'll do better on laptops.

[dijit]

FWIW I did what you did, Linux -> FreeBSD, but when I moved "further" away from linux-land and went to openbsd I was surprised at how much more polished things are.

My laptop (thinkpad X201s) used to idle very rough under FreeBSD and suspend didn't work, but under openbsd it did.

Also there were some hardware drivers which appeared not to work at first but running 'fw_update' caused openbsd to download the device drivers I needed and they started working perfectly.

I'm still shocked how easy it was, sure I miss all my software that depends on /proc and I miss zfs.. but I can't think of an operating system that would fit my thinkpad better.

[gkya]

Well if only I could run OpenBSD on my X51RL... That is, it runs fine, but my wifi card doesn't work. I actually just asked a question on /r/openbsd about that: https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/4ilko3/drivers_con... Hope to get some helpful answers there, the case with ath5k is so complicated, reading mailing list and glimpsing over the related C files (I know little C and no hardware) didn't provide any info.