[DemocracyFTW2]

Far from it, matches my personal experience. I have a maxim saying "no BSD on my machine" coming from days when no Linux/Unix was really ready for the out-of-the box experience; it was all a lot of fumbling and guessing and tweaking before you got a running system. Even then BSDs stood out as being always the one that got that extra remark in how to compile a given piece of software.

I actually lifted the ban for a number of Hack- and real Mcintoshes, only to, of course, discover that a bajillion of tools are ever-so-slightly different in their behaviors from the resto of the world, a.k.a. Linux.

BSD on your home machine means you can say hello to a seemingly endless series of special-casing and make-do solutions. Nope, not me.

Anyone is free to tell me why FreeBSD at all when we have Debian, Mint, whatever; it is extremely unlikely any of those arguments will make me try this thing again tho.