I am, and love it.<p>It&#x27;s not without flaws, but it&#x27;s compelling enough that I live with its shortcomings.<p>What do I like ?<p>1) One codebase that supports 57 targets. This code is well exercised.<p>2) Nice balance of conservatism and progressiveness. Seems well-rooted in tradition, but still progressive&#x2F;interesting with things like the RUMP kernels[0], Lua kernel interface[1], etc.<p>3) Plays well with others. It&#x27;s probably out-and-about more than people realize. I once had a printer that had NetBSD as its OS. Original Apple airport units[2] were NetBSD (as is a good amount of MacOS X userland[3], apparently) -- but as an <i>explicit</i> product (i.e.: using it directly by choice), it&#x27;s nice, and it interacts well enough with other systems as well. It&#x27;s got a simple httpd in the base, and ftpd, ssh, etc for swapping files in&#x2F;out in an emergency. It will read FAT filesystems, or ext2,3(,4?), it runs firefox, etc. (admittedly, I don&#x27;t care too much about high-level end-user software, and depending on what you think you need, you might be better served elsewhere -- including moving to Windows or MacOS X).<p>4) I&#x27;ve used NetBSD as my principle OS since 1.6 (2002). It has supported my work, taught me things, and kept my interest. If you&#x27;re interested in seeing what it&#x27;s about, you should install it and give it a good try.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rump_kernel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rump_kernel</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netbsd.org&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;mbalmer&#x2F;fosdem2012&#x2F;kernel_mode_lua.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netbsd.org&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;mbalmer&#x2F;fosdem2...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4117803" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4117803</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netbsd.org&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;products.html#darwin" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netbsd.org&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;products.html#darwin</a>