http://forums.macrumors.com/posts/23292016

In a topic about leaving Apple, I mentioned a switch from OS X to [B]TrueOS Desktop[/B].

[QUOTE="lowendlinux, post: 23291914, member: 920105"]TrueOS used to be called PCBSD …[/QUOTE]

Not quite –
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[*]TrueOS has been around for years

[*]there's [URL='https://forums.pcbsd.org/thread-20901-post-114860.html#pid114860']not yet an official announcement[/URL] about the forthcoming change of name for PC-BSD

[*]PC-BSD is the released and supported system, and support will continue for some time after a press release about TrueOS Desktop
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– I should probably describe this as [B]a period of transition, with alpha/beta testing of TrueOS Desktop[/B], and please note that the TrueOS web site is work in progress.

[QUOTE="Huntn, post: 23291697, member: 183772"]… What kind of limits do you face with choice of applications? …[/QUOTE]

Loosely speaking: much of what's in [URL='https://www.freshports.org/']FreshPorts[/URL] can be found through [URL='https://www.trueos.org/handbook/sysadmclient.html#appcafe']AppCafe[/URL]. If a port is in FreshPorts but not in AppCafe, it's usually easy to perform a command-line installation.

On the rare occasions when I require Microsoft Office: I use a Windows-based computer in a nearby office.

Once (probably on a Mac) I watched something with Amazon Video that required Microsoft Silverlight. If Amazon Video becomes a habit, I'll use [URL='https://www.freshports.org/emulators/pipelight']Pipelight[/URL] – and of all the things that I tested with PC-BSD, Pipelight was probably the most difficult to install.

Additional reading:
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[*][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface']application binary interface (ABI)[/URL]
[*][URL='https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-emulation/']Linux® emulation in FreeBSD[/URL] – about the so called [I]Linuxulator[/I]

[*]FreeBSD Handbook [URL='https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html']Chapter 10. Linux® Binary Compatibility[/URL] – [I]not really emulation, it is an ABI implementation[/I].
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