&gt; *BSDs for the last few years I take for granted releases &quot;just working&quot;.<p>That is true. There are unexplained caveats however, such as you&#x27;d need to know, for example, not to give the full disk to ZFS, because if you encrypt it, and you&#x27;re not aware you need to do an off-machine metadata backup, after a power loss, you&#x27;re screwed.<p>Linux distros may not always be perfect on release (hell, they are usually pretty shitty on release), but I never lost data like with FreeBSD before in the past 10 years of using linux.