Often finding an answer gives me useful knowledge I can then use in other circumstances, but I can't possibly know every corner of my OS.
Recently I found my only machine running FreeBSD (as a testing machine) was kernel crashing occasionally. On a whim I googled '<machine name> kernel crash', and found a page which discussed an extra linux boot-time flag I had to add, to disable some feature of the graphics card. I couldn't figure out how to do the same thing on FreeBSD, so just switched to Debian, and added the magic option. No more crashes. Now the machine runs a FreeBSD VM on top of linux.
Recently I found my only machine running FreeBSD (as a testing machine) was kernel crashing occasionally. On a whim I googled '<machine name> kernel crash', and found a page which discussed an extra linux boot-time flag I had to add, to disable some feature of the graphics card. I couldn't figure out how to do the same thing on FreeBSD, so just switched to Debian, and added the magic option. No more crashes. Now the machine runs a FreeBSD VM on top of linux.