Hi, I have gone trough this process last week. I'm new to freeBSD and wanted to install it in my notebook. For me it was painful. I couldn't tweak it to work as I wanted.

- Wifi worked out of the box.

- The people from #freebsd chan on irc were very helpful

- The handbook is very useful

The problems that I couldn't fix:

- Somehow I can't go back to terminal if I start x environment, afaik this is a problem of Intel HD Graphic cards (onboard on my notebook).

- No acpi support to adjust the brightness level, I have to rely on an app but it isn't the same.

- Touchpad support.. In ubuntu it works out of the box, two-finger scrolling and all, in freebsd I have to struggle a little with xorg and the end result is a little worse than ubuntu.

- I can't suspend my computer. It never wakes up :(

I still have to configure a lot of things (keyboard shortcuts, install better fonts, network manager).

It's not that I jumped from ubuntu to freeBSD, I've used archlinux for a few years before I got tired of it breaking my apps with the updates :P

I regret installing it on my notebook before trying it on my desktop or on a virtual machine.