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In all fairness all these comparisons and all these BSD vs. another BSD vs. Linux OS wars are becoming long in the tooth. There haven't been any news or revelations in a long, long time. Want to try a BSD (or a Linux distro) on a VPS? Good for you. Want to do it on a laptop? By all means. Want things to work out of the box? Get a system with an OS preinstalled (and supported). Otherwise, the differences between the OS you'll find will be minor.

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> Otherwise, the differences between the OS you'll find will be minor

I think this is by design. If things are too different from one os to another, it raises the barrier to entry and hampers adoption. Furthermore, Linux distributions often also rely on things like standardized tooling and file system layout to ensure backwards compatibility

There are people who try to do new things in the space (gnu guix and nixos come to mind), but they tend to be comparably fringe when put side by side with something more mainstream (and perhaps battle-tested) like Debian or BSD

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