> FreeBSD doesn't afford you any more or less control over how the system works than Linux.

And yet, I'm constantly patching and working around lib issues on Linux (on the desktop), but never with FreeBSD. That's the point being made. Linux is a lot of stuff mashed together to make a system, and it works really well, but FreeBSD is a collection of components carefully curated and maintained as one and works very, very well most of the time.

If Linux works for you, use it. No one is trying to convert you.