Quote Originally Posted by SirDice View Post
If everything "just works" you don't really learn something do you?

Spin those braincells and feel the victory when you finally manage to get it working. That's unix.

Linux is for people that hate Windows. BSD is for people that love Unix.
I understand what you're saying, but it depends on your goal. IcSilk stated that he wanted to learn to use the *nix command line, not learn to configure a *nix OS via the command line. There's no reason to over complicate things if it's not part of his goal. There's nothing wrong with learning to use BSD and configure it via the command line, however that is a more advanced goal that should be tackled after first becoming familiar with the command line.