This blog by Vermaden is probably one of the most cited in the FreeBSD community when someone in a forum/subreddit asks why FreeBSD. I think it does a good job encapsulating the reasons one would choose FreeBSD over Linux or other OS’s.
I’ve become more partial to the *BSD’s in the past couple of years and respect what each one brings. I do daily drive Debian tho ;)
yea sometimes I’ll setup a VM with some kind of BSD for fun but whenever I try it on my real hardware I get some weird issues like you mentioned. Similar things happened years ago when I was first messing around with linux and today I have very few (actually almost zero) linux-related hardware problems so hopefully the BSDs follow the same trajectory and eventually become more usable/popular
used thinkpad is your best option I think for BSD
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