Comparing Desktops: PC-BSD 10 and Windows 8

Because these two programs can't 'talk' to each other, even though they're on the same drive, I'll have to do this in a couple of stages. First, this is a snapshot of the desktop showing PC-BSD 10.0.1 with its icons and widgets....

And, after a reboot to get into the other operating system, here's Windows 8, with its icons and gadgets...

Not such a huge difference really. A man on a galloping horse might have trouble telling them apart. My point here being that you aren't giving up anything in the way of convenience or appearance using PC-BSD 10 as compared to Windows 8. And the PC-BSD has features you can't get in Windows, such as its regular upgrades, and its several hundred programs that are made to run on its unique formatting, similar in concept to Apple's OS-X, but different enough that we can't interchange between them. They are 'kissing cousins' though. Apple's OS-X came from the same roots as this PC-BSD.