Re: That's it moving to Linux Mint Debian Edition
I don't choose FreeBSD for its user friendliness. There is a bit of a learning curve to get up to speed with it, but it is worth it.
On FreeBSD, it takes me about 5 minutes from bare metal to a working Samba server, vs about a day for Windows Server, mostly spent updating and rebooting the dammed thing. An inexperienced person would probably to the Windows install quicker but mess up security, but they would have a sort-of working system, whereas they wouldn't know where to start with FreeBSD.