[dysoco]

I tried luck with FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but just couldn't.

Yes, I love both Operating Systems, I love that they are integrated and somewhat less retarded than Linux, I also like their community and development team and OpenBSD's focus on security and code-correctness.

But they are not yet "there" for Desktop use, many applications won't work or will be difficult to set up, and driver compatibility is way worse.

So maybe in a couple of years I'll switch to FreeBSD as a desktop, but for now Funtoo is still fun and somewhat usable.

[mmariani]

Or you could switch to Mavericks which is based on Darwin that was forked from FreeBSD, and desktop ready. ;)

[empthought]

You probably know this, but the Darwin/FreeBSD relationship is much, much more complicated than a fork.

Darwin's the successor to NeXTSTEP, which included a Mach microkernel and some BSD APIs and userland. When they developed OS X, Apple updated much of the userland using more recent FreeBSD versions as a base.

Even more confusingly, Apple has contributed some subsystems to open source that have made their way into FreeBSD (notably the compiler and libc++).

So Darwin's not a fork in the same way that OpenBSD is a fork of NetBSD.

[dysoco]

I will if you pay me a Mac :P

[pimeys]

But is too complicated system underneath for me to use. I love Funtoo/Gentoo for it's simplicity. I know exactly what's installed to my system and how I should configure it. With OS X, Ubuntu or Windows, I don't have that feeling anymore.