Is FreeBSD good for me?

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userfan7

I want to make a distribution for home users. This means that will be a distribution easy to use, light and fast. Users will use this to surf the web, watch movies, play some games and the classic activities. The problem is: I read that Freebsd FreeBSD has driver problems, and some of the most popular (Intel/ATI) are incompatible. So what you suggest? Can this be good or not?
 
There's PC-BSD, GhostBSD. Why reinvent the wheel and fragment FreeBSD further? Join the PC-BSD pool and work with them. And what is your background? It doesn't sound like you have ever developed anything using FreeBSD if you have to ask this question.
 
I'm just the "brain" of a project. There are developers and more nice staff. I hope that my project will be good and that you will see it. I just liked Freebsd FreeBSD benchmarks and some other stuff. That's why I want to inform myself. So your suggestion is to start from PC-BSD or GhostBSD?
 
Not 'start with': work with, i.e. contribute to already existing efforts. Nobody cares about an even further fragmentation of FreeBSD. We're not 'the distro OS'.
 
I'm not getting into the "project topic", I basically agree with @DutchDaemon on that one. However, I also think you're making a wrong assumption here.

userfan7 said:
The problem is: I read that Freebsd FreeBSD has driver problems, and some of the most popular (Intel/ATI) are incompatible. So what you suggest? Can this be good or not?
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What drivers?

Keep in mind that in the end FreeBSD is basically a commandline based Unix-like operating system. It doesn't have to support specific graphic cards to work. Now, I can imagine where that remark might be coming from, considering that it has become quite common to spout comments such as: "Linux distribution X now supports even more graphic cards". Which is of course partially true; most of the work isn't so much done by Linux (the kernel) but the X Window System ("X11") running on top of it.

In that aspect FreeBSD isn't that much different. If X11 supports it, then so can FreeBSD (because it doesn't have to; it lets X11 do most of the work).

As for those drivers, well...

Code: 
smtp2:/usr/ports/x11-drivers $ ls -dx xf86-video* | head -5
xf86-video-apm                  xf86-video-ark
xf86-video-ati                  xf86-video-chips
xf86-video-cirrus               xf86-video-cyrix
xf86-video-dummy                xf86-video-fbdev
xf86-video-glint                xf86-video-i128
smtp2:/usr/ports/x11-drivers $ ls -d xf86-video* | wc -l
      41
I don't think there's much to worry about here when it comes to providing a good graphical environment.

Edit: Replaced all mentioning of X.org with the officially requested names / terms as requested in X(7).
 
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