Welcome to our little group willjp, always nice to have more people to share their knowledge, - cause I'm one with more questions than answers. My os of choice is Debian and derivatives - for daily use email browsing and so on.
Have tried to install BSD type OS's and generally the installs go well cause it's been automated almost. My stumbling is adding a desktop environment and other software that is used for spreadsheet , writer, photos , graphis, - mostly non command line stuff. Later in the winter will call on you to tell how to overcome this step of the install. I would like to get an OpenBSD for all desktop work. Glad you found us, hope you have a good time in the forum.