Started my computing experience with Windows 98 but every once in a while I'd check out the Linux distros (Mandriva, OpenSuse and latter on Mandrake). But I had no experience when it came to the *nix like world so having a command prompt in my front lead to chaos. One day I tried out Windows Vista and I really disliked which further strengthened my will to give Linux another try, this time with Ubuntu.
From then on I spent over 1 year messing around with tons of Linux distros always building more knowledge and wanting to know how things worked and were glued together. This lead me to Gentoo and its documentation. However much the same way I was curious of Linux when using Windows I became curious of the BSD world.
I loved FreeBSD's website and its Handbook the moment I came across it. Man I really loved (and love) all that clear and complete documentation. There was a feel of cleanness, of old (*nix) and at the same time of new. Eventually I toyed around with FreeBSD 6.2 while reading the Handbook.
However I couldn't get Enemy Territory running on FreeBSD, so for a time I was using Gentoo as the desktop. Eventually I came across BSD books such as Building a Server with FreeBSD 7 which further cemented my knowledge when it came to server related subjects.
At some point I got an ancient 266Mhz Celeron in which oddly enough the only thing I managed to install was FreeBSD. FreeBSD ran marvellously on it and further focused my interest in the OS.
Soon after I got Enemy Territory to run and from then on FreeBSD is everywhere in my computing.
Now other operating systems seem odd and unwelcoming which leads me to seek FreeBSD specific things like how building ports (customized and expanded 2 ports, half way through creating one and have plans to update/create a few).
To sum up, there's nothing like: