So it seems that my innocent suggestion that Linux isn&#x27;t perfect may have spawned a tiny... massive holy war. Great. You know what? SmartOS is fantastic. It&#x27;s great. But Linux isn&#x27;t terrible. They both have their flaws. Like SmartOS not having a large binary footprint, and not having the excellent package repositories. And the fact that every partisan of one hates &#x2F;proc on the other. And the fact that KVM is from linux. And that the docker image is actually a pretty good idea. Or the fact that SMF and lauchd were some of the inspirations for systemd. Okay, now I&#x27;m just tossing fuel on the fire, by the bucketload.<p>Personally, I run linux on my desktop. Insane, I know, but I can&#x27;t afford mac, and the OSX posix environment just keeps getting worse. Jeez. At this rate, Cygwin and the forthcoming POSIX environment from MS will be better. But anyways, I&#x27;m not switching my system to BSD or Illumos anytime soon, despite thinking that they are Pretty Cool (TM). Why? The binary footprint. Mostly Steam. Okay. Pretty much just Steam. Insane, I know, but I&#x27;m not running (just) a server.<p>So in summary, all software sucks, and some may suck more than others, but I&#x27;m not gonna care until Illumos and BSD get some love from NVIDIA.<p>And why do you care what a crazy person thinks? Oh, you don&#x27;t. By all means continue the holy war. Grab some performance statistics, and hook in the BSDs. I&#x27;ll be over heating up the popcorn...