Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Andriy Gapon on Tuesday, 29 March 2011:
> on 29/03/2011 19:43 Paul Schmehl said the following:
> > FreeBSD is first and foremost a server OS.  Desktop support is lacking when
> > compared to the other major OSes (Windows, Mac and Linux).  You can make it work,
> > if you want to, but that's not what its primary function is.
> 
> Chiming in on a random post.
> FreeBSD is whatever its users and developers make it to be.
> FreeBSD is positioned as a general purpose OS and different people use it in very
> different ways.  From embedded through servers to desktops.  Yes, really.
> 
> You can share your experience about FreeBSD as a desktop, I can share mine (which
> is quite different from yours), those would be interesting (and perhaps useful)
> anecdotes.
> But, please, let's refrain from labeling FreeBSD and cornering it into some niche.
> 

Hear, hear!  I use it for my desktop, and I'm quite happy with it.

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