Yes but the BSD license allows a lot more. So this isn't really a problem.
> Firefox on FreeBSD is a hack layered over a hack running slowly. I have no idea how much work is required to support it, but it’s somewhere between “big” and “have mercy”. About that closed-source ones? No Office for you.
Firefox works fine on FreeBSD.
And MS office is not available on Linux either. Open source office stuff is. I use abiword myself.
> Nada. GNU/Linux has plethora of sites, blogs, and vlogs. Any problem you may encounter, someone else already solved and documented
This is actually a problem with Gnu/Linux. A solved issue on arch may not be the solution on Debian or redhat. Really these distros are different OSes but they are not treated as such.
> You need to enjoy making it work for you. Otherwise, all you will find is annoyance and a swift OS change.
Well yes. Here I agree. I love running my FreeBSD desktop. But it's not as much work as he claims and the community is really helpful. Because it's so small you can often reach out to the maintainers directly and because they're completely non-commercial you will get real answers, not the corporate line. This is the main thing I love about FreeBSD. There's no double motive. Nobody trying to make a buck or push their own intellectual property. If some corporation is paying to do work for you they're doing that because they're expecting to make more money off you one way or another. There's no win-win. Linux is more neoliberal, BSD more socialist and grassroots.
> Next: do you like to call yourself an early adopter? Being in the bleeding edge is what gets you going? BSD are evolving slowly by design. If something works, let’s leave it alone. That’s the mantra. GNU/Linux is changing rapidly - Pipewire, Wayland, SystemD. Even good old ifconfig is being deprecated. At the same time BSDs still use technology from decades ago7. There was never a need to replace them, so no one did it.
Yes this is a huge benefit of the BSDs in my opinion. No changes for the sake of it.
Overall, l think the title of the article is way too black and white. Yes you need to be aware of what you're getting into. But if you're even trying this, you already do. Nobody runs BSD on their desktop because some magazine told them it's the best thing ever.