I believe that&#x27;s because devs want to use what they use for their workstation (that is, what they know the best) on their servers.  That&#x27;s understandable, and most cloud services give you boxes that are already usable but because you don&#x27;t have sth. like the FreeBSD handbook, and because the whole thing is not that thightly integrated, complex stuff requires hacks and dirty workarounds or at least a lot of experience.  I have not done any system-admin work, but I can say this: in one week I&#x27;ve managed to make my FreeBSD system completely reproducible after using it for the first time.  I haven&#x27;t been able to do that with any Gnu&#x2F;Linux, and I&#x27;ve used it for more than ten years till last february I guess.