Thanks for the review of FreeBSD 12.1, it's refreshing to see alternatives OS. FreeBSD could be used for Desktop, and I used FreeBSD and NetBSD natively at some points, but *NOT* with a graphical UI.
The problem is that the decades since then saw far more FreeBSD's use of a central code repository has made it more difficult to fork, since you pretty much have to fork the entire thing, rather than ...