Is BSD any good as a Desktop system compared to Linux?

Hi, ok I know BSD is superior as a server, but what about as a Desktop?

Is its hardware support as good as Linux? How is it in use ability?

Free BSD as itself is not a good desktop system. However, if you want the speed of BSD + the Desktop PC-BSD is awesome as a desktop system. I would go with that till you are ready to make the switch.

I tryed PC BSD for a bit it seemed to be pretty good, I would prefer mainstreem linux though. they had a nice little software portal that helped out quite a bit it was stable on my desktop that it was setup on. so in genral I would say its OK . It was one of the few distros I could install on my IBM R31 laptop but it would crash all the time

The desktop is as good or as lousy as the developers make it. PC-BSD, when I tried it, was a nice, if boring, environment. It uses KDE. RoFreeSBIE, a BSD LiveDVD, also uses KDE.

I found hardware support to be comparable to that of Linux for the most part. FreeBSD seemed to hang on exit with my old laptop's ACPI, but it's ACPI was unreliable, even with Windows. Obviously, you won't have proprietary drivers from NVIDIA or ATI for your video card.

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