@grahamperrin @peteorrall @jwallen Somehow you mangled the URL. I searched the Wayback Machine for the URL on the end and got this: https://web.archive.org/web/20260126155103/https://www.zdnet.com/web/20260126155103/https:/www.zdnet.com/article/freebsd-will-challenge-your-skills-and-make-you-learn-along-the-way/ TBH, I agree with most of @jwallen's points here. * FreeBSD _does_ have common roots with real original AT&T Unix©™. All the AT&T code was eventually removed & replaced, so it is Theseus's Unix: no original parts, but it started out made from the same bits. * FreeBSD _is_ more challenging than almost any Linux. I am not a Linux specialist -- I was installing SCO Xenix in production 3 years _before_ Linus started his project -- but Linux _has_ advanced _far_ more in ease of use than any of the BSDs. FreeBSD especially so: for example, at least OpenBSD and NetBSD leave you with working X11 and a window manager at the end of a default install. FreeBSD doesn't. I too am _considering_ switching to FreeBSD. My Intel Mac is getting old, I don't want an Arm one, and soon x86 macOS will start to bitrot. OTOH a lot of my favourite tools and apps are still missing from BSD. I don't want containers or fancy server stuff, but I very much do want a CUA editor in my console, for instance. TBH I may well switch to Alpine Linux instead. It's still a Linux, but it feels a bit like one of the 1990s ones: tiny, fast, clean, for the price of being not very friendly…