Eh, depends. The price for something like VMware horizon was already damn expensive and that’s before you got to citrix prices (and this is pre broadcom takeover.)

For some places the costs are able to be recouped but it really depends. You still need plenty of scale to have that be viable IME.

My main point being there are a millions of small businesses and medium size ones that are still always going to be far better off with normal physical hardware.

Well sure. I mainly meant FreeBSD. Thanks for clarifying.

Really good network stack. Linux is catching up surely but places like Netflix run a ton of stuff on BSD simply for that stack. AFAIK ebpf is supposedly the thing that will have Linux compete in this space- https://dev.to/dpuig/understanding-ebpf-a-game-changer-for-linux-kernel-extensions-4m7i

For a normal person? I’d argue there’s about zero benefit to running BSD over some Linux distro. Less people use jails compared to containers, networking doesn’t matter like you said, and hardware support is far more awful in terms of drivers. There’s a reason there’s like 2-3 desktop oriented distros on BSD compared to hundreds on Linux.

Kind of like the jack. They say removing it does this or that but all it really did was save the corporation a couple cents and was overall a downgrade and removal of functionality for the average person.