The complaints often expressed on this forum reveal a strong psychological bias: we live under an unprecedented, ever increasing social and media pressure that conditions us to avoid thinking and to reason using cliches instead.
The consequence of this bias on FreeBSD is that people giving it a try begin their exploration with trying and finding the closest cliche they know that could apply to FreeBSD. If the match is not perfect, they get upset or disappointed and complain for that mismatch revealing the gap between their cliche and reality, and the adaptive effort they'd have to make to fill the gap.
In such an event, these people would greatly benefit from asking themselves a few questions, to begin with:
- Why do they give another system a try?
- What's at stake here for such reactions to occur?
After all, they're happy with what they already have - which is their current "reference cliche" - so what?
Anyway, that's their business - their personal development - and we can't do anything about it.
I feel we spend too much time on such complaints.
Moreover, their bias drives them away from any possible benefit of their exploration, so it's time lost for everyone.
