The last time I did was around the time PC-BSD became TrueOS, forcing me to reinstall. Running X11 gave me some kind of trouble afterwards, so installed vanilla FreeBSD, which gave me trouble, too. So I installed Debian and haven't looked back.
That was on a ThinkPad x220, which supposedly is supported well by the BSD systems, and it did run well with PC-BSD. But I figured I was getting too old for fiddling around all weekend to get it to work, and Debian just worked(tm).
Before that, I used FreeBSD on my desktop roughly from 2003 to 2005, mostly because I liked its simplicity and it did feel snappier than GNU/Linux at the time.
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The last time I did was around the time PC-BSD became TrueOS, forcing me to reinstall. Running X11 gave me some kind of trouble afterwards, so installed vanilla FreeBSD, which gave me trouble, too. So I installed Debian and haven't looked back.
That was on a ThinkPad x220, which supposedly is supported well by the BSD systems, and it did run well with PC-BSD. But I figured I was getting too old for fiddling around all weekend to get it to work, and Debian just worked(tm).
Before that, I used FreeBSD on my desktop roughly from 2003 to 2005, mostly because I liked its simplicity and it did feel snappier than GNU/Linux at the time.