A year ago I was only familiar with Ubuntu, and maybe it was my fault for being too lazy to learn anything else. However, about a year ago I noticed that I started having problems after upgrading my system, so I decided to give it the heave ho. At that time I just wanted a reliable operating system that wouldn't break every other day, so I decided to give FreeBSD a try. I admit, I kinda jumped int the deep end of the swimming pool without knowing how to swim very well, but eventually I made it through my cry-baby phase, and now I'm able to use FreeBSD relatively well on my own. Incidentally, I have two older HP laptops which I know have Devuan Linux running on, and this works out well because Devuan with Xfce is so friendly that almost anyone can use it.
