The other day I ditched openSUSE for FreeBSD on my laptop.

I got sick and tired of openSUSE's incredibly slow package management, and it has lots of customizations where I prefer the defaults. For instance, instead of Alt-Space activating the active window's context menu, it brought up Kerry Beagle search. And Meta/Super hotkeys didn't work (I use Run and Desktop hotkeys a lot). I decided that I shouldn't have to change a ton of things to their default value when they should be the default in the first place.

I like FreeBSD so far, it seems very easy to learn. The only thing that's confusing so far is that pkg_add, /usr/ports, and sysinstall Packages all seem to have a different list of packages... shouldn't they be the same?