I have migrated most of my personal stuff (like local fileservers, caldav / carddav and a few others) to FreeBSD jails in 2022 and haven't looked back. When a new release comes along I run `freebsd-update` and recreate my jails from Ansible, and that's that. A lot calmer than the churn that is modern Linux + Docker. And I get an awesome ZFS experience, too. I'm really happy.

I had the fun of briefly checking yesterday that the long-forgotten Vagrant packaging for 13.4-RELEASE still works.

It does! And FreeBSD is a real fun, calm little playground for those of us who spend most of our lives on Linux. I'd recommend people try it out if for no other reason than just to see how things could be done otherwise, and to get a chance to read Michael W. Lucas's stellar books on the topic.

With 14 already out for a long time, do many stay on 13 still?

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.4R/relnotes/

Does freebsd have the debian equivalent of unattended-upgrades? I want to setup auto security updates and forget about it.

Last time I’ve checked FreeBSD didn’t seem to handle mixed core types like the ones you find on recent intel and ARM processors very well. Did it changed?

I’ll get back to FreeBSD when the most popular wifi card by a wide margin (iwlwifi, Intel AX200/AX2xx) will start working. That’s a shame, FreeBSD was long known for quality networking, and now what?