FreeBSD is not good. It's very good.
Seriously:
Point is, you need to answer truely for youself:
What you
really want/need to do with your machine?
Besides you may run into trouble with some DRM stuff, as
jbo@ mentioned, depending on what media/channel you want to consume (I recently had some DRM probs with an ebook) - but you may run into those on any open source OS.
Also for playing games, FreeBSD was not the best choice. It's possible, in limits, with conditions - some may run smoothly, some others not so very well, others not at all - but anyway it's not a total noob's task to get Windows or Linux games running on FreeBSD.
If all that's no concern, all you really need/want is using LibreOffice, a webbrowser, some mediaplayer, and
maybe an e-mail client, maybe some graphics prog like Gimp - then the underlying OS does not really matter at all.
Then the question you shall ask yourself: Why you are not satisfied with the Linux distro you run at the moment, and why not chose another turn-key OS like GhostBSD, openSUSE, Ubuntu etc.
Don't get me wrong. I for sure don't want to talk anybody out of FreeBSD. In the contrary.
But it's no use to see the things not realistic.
FreeBSD is not for multimedia consumer's toys, but tends more to scientific and professional usages.
FreeBSD is no turn key OS which come completely autoinstalling, autoconfiguring, automatically setting up everything etc.
It's no rocket science neither. As
MG said: For an experienced user a system capable of working like some turn-key OS it's done with a dozen simple commands, or so, plus all the time to download and install, could be done under two hours - large packages like libreoffice and a heavy weight DEs like KDE simply take time to be downloaded and installed, while with more lightweight SW it could be done in under twenty minutes.
But as long as you are not truely interested in learning the system, you will not have much fun in the long term with it.
Long story short:
FreeBSD is a system that needs to be learned at least a bit.
If you are not interested in learning the underlying system at all, just using the apps, which was fully OK, then FreeBSD was not the best choice to pick.
But if you are interested in learning the/a system, willing to read many a lot of documentation, not just using the machine, but learning computers, learning how to set up and configure a machine, learn, what your real needs are, learn which software there is, try some, pick some, learn its usage,... then FreeBSD was a very good choice I highly recommend. I dare say the best way to get your very own indvidiual tailored machine.
But that's of course your very own decision only you can make for yourself.
