So after a two/three day process, I installed FreeBSD on my laptop (17 hours of this was compiling KDE from the ports tree). I have to admit, the whole system is structured, logical, and efficient.
I had been a Linux user, and coming to FreeBSD the first thing I noticed was an amazing handbook which documents 95% of everything I need to know. It even covered nearly all of my troubleshooting. I found that after just a day of reading FreeBSD's wonderful documentation, I knew more about FreeBSD than I had known about Linux after 3 years of using it and reading its chaotic documentation (when it could even be found).
Also, although I can't make a solid claim to this, I have so far found FreeBSD to be faster at everything I have done, falling short only in 3D graphics (which I understand is managed by Xorg, so that's not really under FreeBSD's jurisdiction).
Just a few hours of using it and I can already tell I won't regret this install.
I had been a Linux user, and coming to FreeBSD the first thing I noticed was an amazing handbook which documents 95% of everything I need to know. It even covered nearly all of my troubleshooting. I found that after just a day of reading FreeBSD's wonderful documentation, I knew more about FreeBSD than I had known about Linux after 3 years of using it and reading its chaotic documentation (when it could even be found).
Also, although I can't make a solid claim to this, I have so far found FreeBSD to be faster at everything I have done, falling short only in 3D graphics (which I understand is managed by Xorg, so that's not really under FreeBSD's jurisdiction).
Just a few hours of using it and I can already tell I won't regret this install.