First of all let me tell any linux users attempting to try FreeBSD, that once installed, they are extremely similar. My main gripe was with the install itself. It was a text based install, this did not bother me as I have installed slackware before several times. However, its installer is much more difficult than the slackware installer to use. For instance I couldnt find anywhere in the install to set up dhcp. Yes there was a network configuration part, but I did not see anything about dhcp there. I probably just missed it, but after searching frustratedly for a few minutes, it really irritated me. Then another annoying thing was that at no point during the install did it ask which window manager to use in X. I intended on using BlackBox, however, it defaulted to twm and I had to manually change this after the install. I believe that if I had never used linux first, FreeBSD's install would have been too much for me to handle. Once everything was installed and configured, FreeBSD was rock solid and worked quite well. One thing I really enjoy about FreeBSD over linux is that it boots much faster. After using freeBSD I chose to stick with linux though.