Comment by wink
4 years ago
I'm not sure you should plainly compare FreeBSD on a limited choice of Hardware doing server things with "a general purpose GUI desktop OS".
OP didn't say FreeBSD was bad in my reading, but as a somewhat irregular user you just notice 1000 papercuts (which are not the OS's fault per se for the most part) but which detract from the overall experience. Every nth software package you use for the first time needs a (small, 3-line) patch which is mostly because the people develop on Linux. Sometimes it's better if they develop on OSX, sometimes it doesn't matter.
OP was bashing FreeBSD as having no userbase, comparing it to a hobby project with no known bugs because it has no users to find them.
FreeBSD isn't run on a limited choice of hardware.