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Old 15th May 2008
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>Could it be that the learning curve required to get a BSD installation up and working as a desktop system is more steep

-Debian
-Gentoo
-ArchLinux
-Slackware
etc.

But otherwise, there are systems like DesktopBSD and PC-BSD.

>Could it be that many BSD users start with Linux to learn a lot of concepts and then expand their horizons to the world of BSD?

In my experience it's most of the time out of frustration.

>Could it be that as a community aggressively markets and grows it will inevitably attract novices faster than it can breed experts?

Well this is a problem for really small communities like this $BSD-community, but it's no problem at all for the huge Linux community. There you'll get lot of experts and novices at the same time. No marketing at all on the other hand is fatal too.
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