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>What is BSD?

A family of operating system written by scientists, professional programmers and engineers, for general use and OS research purposes.

>What advantage does it have over arch/gentoo/et al.

Well, it depends on what you want, if you want a working desktop system out of the box (OOTB), the BSD (except TrueOS) is possibly not right for you unless you have the ideal configuration.

If you want a headless server, FreeBSD is a no brainer, it will run faster, use less memory and has a stable interface that is easy to manage. You won't need to hang around systemd mailing lists to make sure your configuration won't break.

If you want the most secure OS in existence, OpenBSD is the way to go.

Got a Linux specific app? It'll run on FreeBSD through the compatibility layer
Windows? WINE will usually do it.

The only use case where you absolutely must use Linux is currently CUDA, but that will hopefully change if we can convince nVidia to remove the coconut from its backside and support open source software.