| I am a long time Debian Netinst (terminal) user, and Mint Cinnamon for Desktop.
OPNSense run on FreeBSD and it just works. My personal issue is that I do not believe FreeBSD will give me a smooth experience to get my GPU and what not running. On Mint Cinnamon, I only had to install the latest supported kernel to get my RTX and WiFi6 card recognised. Debian, the reason why I run Debian as a server everywhere, even in my 3D printer is because it just work, and not just that. I only run Debian Netinst version, that means to only install standard system and SSH, text mode is the way. We are talking about 300MB of memory being used by Pihole + Unbound Recursive DNS of 512MB running on a Debian 13. Disk space?? 1GB or so I guess. These are my blockers to even try raw FreeBSD, lack of proper hardware support and as a server even if I remove everything I can, I do not imagine FreeBSD running with 300MB/1G of resources. Not to mention if you work in IT in any way, the last thing you wanna is fighting the system you use to solve another problem, that is why I left Ubuntu after 13years or so, it is a Windows within the Linux world now. A distro Linux must just run, no dramas, no issues, major system release goes like nothing happened. That matters!!! |