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For someone who’s interested in getting into any *BSD, which should I go with? OpenBSD or FreeBSD?

I use OpenBSD. I love it, but I recommend reading warnings on the label.

I would say FreeBSD is somewhat like Ubuntu is to Linux - easy to get setup, works for more people.

There isn’t anything like OpenBSD in the Linux world - where the primary focus is system correctness, even at the cost of user convenience at times.

What's your use case?

(FWIW, there several other *BSD's.)

I don't have any specific use case yet, I'm planning on having a little server at home. Things I'll use it for is hosting small apps, local dns server, monitor our LAN and maybe act as a host for multiplayer games.

FreeBSD is much more similar to Linux (you'll feel right at home in a few hours of practice), usually performs better, supports more hardware, includes full ZFS support (including root-on-ZFS — and several FreeBSD developers work on ZFS full time), has decent compatibility with Linux binaries, and more software in the ports.

What games? Few multiplayer servers, if any, would run natively on a BSD.

Unless you're spinning up a MUD.

Well for starters, I'm thinking of hosting a Minecraft server for my friends when we're bored

In theory:

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorial:OpenBSD_startup_script

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