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by idoubtit 86 days ago
All this would be true if Linux and FreeBSD had similar exposition. But there's obviously less users and less hardware in the BSD world, so we must expect a higher variance.

For instance, searching in recent FreeBSD issues, some hardware is compatible but 3× slower, as in "NFS is much too slow at 10GbaseT"[^1]. Or a FreeBSD upgrade to v14 could sink the NFS performance, as in "Write performance to NFS share is ~4x slower than on 13.2". Of course, these bugs happen with Linux, but there are vastly more resources to detect and fix these problems in the Linux world.

[^1]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277197

[^2]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276299