I think the user space apps will mostly work on BSD, so if somehow in future a BSD distro will be superior to Linux should be easy to move the apps over. I do not think there will be a lot of work put in the Linux kernel and I think KDE still works on BSDs
Let's hope they won't just flip-flop like Munich, the poster child for linux adoption.
Linux monoculturalization is not great news. We should deploy e.g. *BSD and illumos as well to prevent having all eggs in one basket.
Let's not let perfect become the enemy of better. :)
I think the kernel is really an implementation detail. The user space would be mostly the same between all of the open source posix OSes.
I think the user space apps will mostly work on BSD, so if somehow in future a BSD distro will be superior to Linux should be easy to move the apps over. I do not think there will be a lot of work put in the Linux kernel and I think KDE still works on BSDs
KDE still does. GNOME also does, but it basically requires them to compat-shim systemd, which is really unfortunate.
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I'm gonna do my part and champion Haiku OS instead.
Anything non-Windows would work for the time being. OpenIndiana and FreeBSD / OpenBSD can come later. :D