&gt; Like SmartOS not having a large binary footprint, and not having the excellent package repositories.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.perkin.org.uk&#x2F;posts&#x2F;building-packages-at-scale.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.perkin.org.uk&#x2F;posts&#x2F;building-packages-at-scale.ht...</a><p>&gt; And the fact that KVM is from linux.<p>Actually that&#x27;s great that it&#x27;s from Linux, because one major point of embarrassment for Linux is that KVM runs faster and better on SmartOS than it does on Linux, because Joyent engineers systematically used DTrace during the porting effort:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o</a><p>&gt; Insane, I know, but I can&#x27;t afford mac<p>Once you&#x27;re able to afford one, you won&#x27;t care about the desktop every again, because your desktop will JustWork(SM).<p>&gt;  but I&#x27;m not gonna care until Illumos and BSD get some love from NVIDIA.<p>NVIDIA provides regular driver updates for both Solaris and BSD. I bought a NVidia GX980TX, downloaded the latest SVR4 package for my Solaris 10 desktop, and one pkgrm &amp;&amp; pkgadd later, I was running accelerated 3D graphics on the then latest-and-greatest accelerator NVIDIA had for sale.<p>&gt; By all means continue the holy war. Grab some performance statistics, and hook in the BSDs.<p>They take our code, and we take theirs; they help us with our bugs, and we help them with theirs. BSD&#x27;s are actually great. BSD&#x27;s have smart, capable, and competent engineers who care about engineering correct systems and writing high quality code. We love our BSD brethren.