The Sad State Of GPU Drivers For BSD, Solaris

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On the desktop, it is truly a battle to migrate to Linux from Windows or Mac these days. I can't imagine how much of a struggle it'd be on top of that to migrate from, say, Windows to BSD. My gut feeling is that you just couldn't. With Linux at least there are a lot of equivalent programs or possible ways to emulate, and you have (some of) the hardware drivers needed to back it up.

It's apparent that you haven't tried it.
I am at the process of migrating 2 machines from Windows to Lubuntu and PC-BSD. Lubuntu is done, but it was much easier because my requirements for the machine were very low, the main workstation will be PC-BSD.
I started as a 95% *nix newbie and I think both OSes were equally hard. Lubuntu is more mature, GUI configuration is much more advanced. OTOH BSD is by far the best documented project that I met, there's no comparison with Linux. Community support - great in both cases, although on Linux the answers come faster.

Equivalent programs and emulation? I haven't found a single Linux program that I'd like to use that wouldn't be available on FreeBSD, at least yet. As far as I can tell, wine works the same (that is: quite badly). So I haven't noticed any difference.

Drivers? Lol. They don't matter as long as your hardware is well supported. If it's not, it's not worth the pain (for a newbie at least). In fact that's the only reason I use Lubuntu.

Again, it's not a Linux problem. If they want to catch up then they should follow Linux, but they have not enough manpower to do that, I guess.

Sounds like a strategy to make a poor Linux-wannabe. Nonsense. They have to keep working on doing some things better. This will make them do other things worse, but without unique features there would be little reason to use BSD.