living with freebsd

[prad]

i'd like to know how people live with freebsd.

do you use only ports or only packages or a mixture?
do you upgrade from version to version using freebsd tools or do it
manually?
do you have a different approach regarding the above depending on
whether it is for a server or a desktop?

the handbook tells you what you can do, but i'd like to know what is
actually done and why.

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In friendship,
prad

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