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About a month ago, while talking with a colleague who had experience only with Linux, he mentioned that he knew of the BSDs but had never "had the courage" to try them. I suggested he give them a shot, reminding him not to think of BSDs as "just another Linux" but as entirely different operating systems. Focusing on security, I recommended OpenBSD - also mentioning HardenedBSD, sure it would pique his interest.
A few hours ago, he called me about something else and confirmed that for weeks now, he's been using OpenBSD on his laptop (disk encrypted), FreeBSD on two servers, and NetBSD on an embedded device at home. He plans to experiment with HardenedBSD and DragonflyBSD in the coming weeks.
However, he did have one complaint: we've known each other for five years, and I never encouraged him to try this earlier! 
@martenbjorklund@mastodon.nu@stefano How is Wayland support? Flatpaks? And that “improve laptop support” initiative?
@martenbjorklund the improve laptop support is doing huge steps - of course, we can't expect they'll fill the gap in some months. But things are improving.
For Wayland, I've seen some interesting posts but I'm not following closely.
Flatlpacks is a Linux thing and I'm not sure it will ever land into the BSDs (at least in this form).
@stefano @martenbjorklund flatpak on top of the Linux compatibility layer should work though, right?
Not that it is necessary in most cases
@michelin @stefano @martenbjorklund yes, it works (and apt, too)
@martenbjorklund @stefano OpenBSD has its own X system, FreeBSD offers Wayland as an option but I never tried, NetBSD, I think, uses standard X. From the 'linuxer' point of view of desktop I believe no one of them will satisfy a user used to linux .
@xenotar @stefano Thank you for the information! I really like the BSDs, have used OpenBSD & FreeBSD in the past but my conclusion then was that they shine for headless systems (ie servers/routers) and never really fit my desktop use-case, media consumption, all kinds of development and steam gaming.
I will keep cheering on from the sidelines for abit 
@martenbjorklund @xenotar FreeBSD is making huge strides in this direction, as the Foundation is putting a lot of effort into the 'improve laptop support' project. I mostly use BSDs on servers, etc., so I'm more focused on that use case, but it would be great to have improved support for laptops as well.
As a user used to *BSD, no linux desktop satisfies me either. Things are different in ways that are annoying.