Linux vs. BSD

Honest question (I know it's 4chan and /prog/ and all, but still, I figured I would try):  Why BSD and not Linux?  And no, I'd rather not ask the Windows zealots over at /g/.

I've just happened to notice some hate for Linux (or ``GNU/Linux'' if your name is rms) around here, so I assume some flavor of BSD is what a number of said individuals are running.  But why?  Why is Linux so bad?  And I'd like to honestly know why, not just something like ``LOL VIRAL GPL IS VIRAL,'' but from a technical standpoint, is it that bad of a system compared to *BSD?  I admit I'm no ENTERPRISE developer, but I've always been able to find programs and tools to suit whatever I want to do on my Linux system, and it seems solid enough.

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- mplayer has libass, which is faster than vsfilter
It's also a lot less compatible than vsfilter. It's actually sad that vsfilter's source is ASS' definition, but that doesn't change the fact that it's how ASS is supposed to look, and that's how those making those subs are expecting it to look (with all the bugs included).
- mplayer is built on ffdshow, so you can use every single filter you could use on Windows as well
Wrong, mplayer is build on ffmpeg. ffdshow is a dshow port of ffmpeg. ffms is a avisynth port of ffmpeg source filters. ffdshow is just one of many dshow filters available. Even ignoring the large variety of dshow filters (common ones people want to use are CoreAVC as it provides H264 decoding acceleration, but ffdshow-mt is fast enough for my box, so I don't use it). Even ignoring the dshow filters and all other native tools which are available, avisynth is win32 only as well. I'm actually reminded of a certain someone which refused to run Windows for encoding tasks and tried to do as much as possible via mencoder or WINE, but after about one year of experimenting, he ended up running everything through WINE, and the whole process was more trouble than it was worth, so he just uses a VM with Windows for such tasks now. I wish there was a good avisynth port for linux and there would be many plugins supported(there are many which are binaries only as it is, which is a problem even if such an avisynth port appeared), but we all know the avisynth 3.0 port is vaporware/dead.
- CoreAVC is actually one single patch applied to mplayer and works just fine
A single patch?
http://code.google.com/p/coreavc-for-linux/ doesn't seem that small to me. And that's just a single dshow filter. There are many many more.

You obviously don't know anything about mplayer, so better stop posting, or even better, go back to /g/.
I've used mplayer and mencoder, but I've also used many other tools, a lot of which are Win32-only. If you're serious about encoding on Linux, you're either going to 1)port a lot of stuff yourself OR more realistically 2) run everything through WINE or 3) just use a Windows VM.

I appreciate ffmpeg's contributions to the domain, but to claim that they're superior to everything else out there just shows that you don't really know what other options are available.