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> FreeBSD has committed the original sin of UNIX by deliberately dropping support for all non-Intel architectures, intending to focus on optimising FreeBSD for the Intel ISA and platforms.

FreeBSD supports amd64 and aarch64 as Tier 1 platforms and a number of others (RiscV, PowerPC, Arm7) as Tier 2

https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/

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It is irrelevant what FreeBSD supports today.

FreeBSD started demoting non-Intel platforms around 2008-2010, with FreeBSD 11 released in 2016 only supporting x86. The first non-Intel architecture support was reinstated in April 2021, with the official release of FreeBSD 13, which is over a decade of the time having been irrevocably lost.

Plainly, FreeBSD has missed the boat – the first AWS Graviton CPU was released in 2018, and it ran Linux. Everything now runs Linux, but it could have been FreeBSD.

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