I started as a user of FreeBSD, I run Linux at work and on my personal computers, As for my personal servers, I'm all in with SmartOS hypervisor.
SmartOS is so simple to use.
SmartOS is so simple to use.
With that said, I use Linux for my desktop as it gives the best user experience on a laptop. IMO, FreeBSD and variants still don't cut it at this time for dekstop.
Sadly, I agree. My experience running FreeBSD on a laptop has been terrible. I do have one ancient laptop running OpenBSD that works perfectly. But due to the smaller number of developers and less enthusiastic support by hardware companies, hardware support is far behind Linux.
On the server, this is less of an issue, because there is less hardware to support, and virtualization, it becomes even easier.
Underrated.