iam an arch user and I want to try or switch to freebsd

I heard it is very stable and secure

I have already downloaded the amd64 iso

but before I install it

is their anything I should know before switching?

I installed freebsd on my old pc. i liked it. i am planning to install it on my daily drive pc. My old pc just have 2 * i5. I couldnt use ports on it. But i can on my daily drive pc. I use gentoo on it for now

If I install PHP via pkg but now have to upgrade it a.s.a.p. to a version not yet in the quarterly pkg packages, what is the recommended path? Just uninstall and then use ports (cd /usr/ports/... && make world)?

I use Arch (btw) on the aforementioned machine with Sway and I'm considering a jump to the BSD side for it. It has four whopping GB of RAM and a Celeron N4020, along with 64GB of eMMC.

The only hardware that I see being problematic is the SOF audio. I remember having a bitch of a time with that after I unlocked this thing, even on non-Googled Linux, until similar hardware started showing up in normal laptops and mainline support improved. Will it work on FreeBSD, and if not out of the box, what do I need to do?.