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I've also found hardware support lacking. In my case SATA controller threw errors on FreeBSD and worked fine in Linux. It's something that's impossible for FreeBSD through because Linux has much more drivers, testers and eyes for exotic hardware. However there exist hardware compatibility lists and most common hardware is supported very well.

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I really wanted to run FreeBSD for my home NUC firewall/router as I like the pf syntax, but had to give up in the end because it couldn’t drive the USB Ethernet adapter at 1 full Gbps speeds, whereas Linux had no problem with the same devices, so NixOS it is.

With the switch of TrueNAS to Linux, I have no more BSD at home, unfortunately.

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