The current FreeBSD installer is quite bad, I was unable to install a system with a NTFS partition left untouched. I wasn't able to create the partitions manually because it complains about "invalid arguments".

Also, when leaving out the bootcode partition, it happily installs and leaves you with a non-bootable system.

In addition, the pkgin tool is a really handy tool to install binary packages. I'm running in a VM with not too much memory and compiling would take ages or fail because of the amount of memory that compiling requires.

I also kinda like the firewall but YMMV.