It is if you know where to look or who to talk to.
That is the exact same question I was asked ~20 years ago regarding Linux vs Windows.
The barrier to entry is higher on *BSD then it is on Linux. But with the appropriate skills/time/energy it is very much worth the effort.
ALL of my edge devices run OpenBSD(since 2011). Most of my Internal servers run FreeBSD (90+%), with the remainder on OpenBSD. I made the decision to migrate away from Linux when SystemD was made default in Debian. In my mind they make more sense. I can grok the config files and Init process. MAN pages are much easier to understand. Network config is brain-dead simple and powerful; that's a combination that shouldn't be overlooked.
I freely admit that I'm an old-fart. My manager thinks I'm a hippy, and my co-workers think I'm a Unix-greybeard. In reality it's just this simple:
It does what I want, and gets out of the way.
This is pretty much my experience, too, almost word-for-word. I also run OpenBSD on my edge nodes and FreeBSD for most app servers. After using FreeBSD on servers for about two years, I felt more comfortable with it than I do with Linux after 20 years. A large part of that is FreeBSD's simplicity, consistency, and documentation. It means I can pull on a thread and follow it myself, often without resorting to mailing lists. On Linux, I often feel like I'm trying to piece together information from a variety of sources, sometimes outdated or not applicable to the distro I'm running. BSD feels more cohesive to me, and I think that makes me more self-reliant.
That is the exact same question I was asked ~20 years ago regarding Linux vs Windows.
The barrier to entry is higher on *BSD then it is on Linux. But with the appropriate skills/time/energy it is very much worth the effort.
ALL of my edge devices run OpenBSD(since 2011). Most of my Internal servers run FreeBSD (90+%), with the remainder on OpenBSD. I made the decision to migrate away from Linux when SystemD was made default in Debian. In my mind they make more sense. I can grok the config files and Init process. MAN pages are much easier to understand. Network config is brain-dead simple and powerful; that's a combination that shouldn't be overlooked.
I freely admit that I'm an old-fart. My manager thinks I'm a hippy, and my co-workers think I'm a Unix-greybeard. In reality it's just this simple: It does what I want, and gets out of the way.