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Heavily considering it.
I have only glanced at it recently, it seems... backwards, but I am definitely ignorant, I guess I should fix that.
BSDs are a whole other rabbit hole on their own. If you like Linux I would at least recommend reading about OpenBSD and FreeBSD, or BSD as a whole. Spin up a VM if you want, pretty fun thing to do.
Our ideas of fun might differ
I already have a few partitions set aside for testing other linux distros. What I have seen so far of bsd doesn't make me want to install it, but I have only had a cursory look so far. I am getting bored of continuously chasing privacy and decency for digital devices, it might be time to go back to reading books again instead, assuming they still exist and are legal.