The majority of the Internet’s routing and switching architecture is BSD based. Historically it had the most stable and performant network stack of all the OSs.

I used it extensively at one job in a previous life when I was a network appliance developer. It was rock solid and lightning fast. Tried it as a desktop at home and had a terrible experience.

The little differences in the Unix commands used to drive me nuts as well…

I use Ranger day to day and just access external volumes from their automatic mount points in /media, or I mount them manually to /mnt.

It works for me!

kernel version beyond 5.6, so it doesn’t allow any modification

Wut?

Most people just use a browser these days, and they behave the same in every OS.

Steam has proton to run non native games on Linux, and works well enough for most things.

Try a few live images before making the switch.

Many programs have compile time options, and the binaries may not have them enabled.

Gotem!