Having answered the question a number of times, I decided to finally document¹ why/how I ended up using BSDs instead of Linux, taking a page from @npub10ad6...g5mh's playbook².
tl;dr: a bit of push from Linux, a bit of pull from the BSDs.
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Why BSDs? | Tim's blog

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