> Which are, respectively, based on 4.9 and 4.11 in ports. The AMD has made large strides since then. In those kernels, the amdgpu driver barely supported Southern/Sea Islands. These work extremely well with recent kernels (much smoother than the old radeon driver). Vega cards only support graphical output since 4.15.

Yes, its currently little older, but they catching up ;)

> The FreeBSD website states that Wayland is not ready for general use. Wayland has been 'enabled' in many Linux distributions for years, but it took a long time to remove all the wrinkles.

I haven't used it, so I do not know how mature it is.

> I wonder: did you actually run a full GNOME desktop on Wayland on FreeBSD for a couple of months?

I run 'light' with openbox/tint/dzen and do not prefer Desktop Environments, besides, for me it does not matter if it runs on X11 or on Wayland as the end result is the same, but as I did not used Wayland I will stop with conclusions here.

> Linux is far more popular and most likely audited more as a result of that. So, it is not surprising that it has more CVEs. Also, the Linux kernel is a fair bit larger, supports more architecture, and more hardware, which means more surface.

Microsoft Windows is magnitudes more popular then Linux, yet it has less holes, so its not only popularity.

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/17153/Microsoft-Windows-7...