... And FreeBSD! Hardware support is rather fine except for wifi, and that can be set up using wifibox packages (technically it's running a lean Linux VM with wi-fi passthrough, but by today's measure the footprint is negligible).

So clean, orderly and patient.

I can't use facts and logic on what is optimized for what, but it feels more responsive than Linux too, with the same desktop setup. I guess Linux with a different scheduler would solve that.