Comment by MrArthegor
8 months ago
For the drivers yes, but with lot of improvements from lasts years with funding in FreeBSD and recent driver in openBSD
But apart from that, BSD have numerous advantages over Linux distributions :
The system is designed/controlled by a one team, with better uniformity at the end, in contrast to Linux world where you have a assembly of multiple projects developed by multiple teams
ZFS. It’s also available on Linux but in BSD (especially FreeBSD) it’s a first-class citizen
The documentation is also better. The OpenBSD is outstanding, you can literally use only the doc without external source of knowledge for virtually anything. FreeBSD doc is also very good.
The core utility is also very helpful. FreeBSD with Dtrace and jails, OpenBSD with pledge and unveil for example.
These are all very good reasons if we’re talking about technical users setting up servers.
For nontech users who need to run random desktop software, dtrace, jails, pledge, uveil and zfs are irrelevant. Ext4 and Chromium will do just fine, but the network printer and a random smart card reader support must be rock solid.