Convince me, please!

[Wojciech Puchar]

>to the task.  In general, I would say that FreeBSD is not the appropriate 
>choice for a "user" who is not at least somewhat interested in the how's 
and why's of the OS.

FreeBSD is excellent for average user if accessed through terminal (or X 
terminal) and configured by system administrator.
or quickly - done right way.

as administrator it only one and such users may be a lot, the "TCO" is 
really small.