There&#x27;s not being modern, and then there&#x27;s not chasing every rabbit down every hole.  Right now I feel like FreeBSD is a wonderful mix of advanced, modern tech like ZFS and bhyve, married with an absence of &quot;oooo-shiny!&quot; misadventures like PulseAudio and systemd.<p>And in particular, right now I&#x27;m grateful that the BSDs are small enough to be ignored by the herds of people migrating away from Windows and bringing their mindsets with them - that all seems to be landing on Linux.