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While the BSD OSs are more usually used by professionals, none of them would be truly bad for beginners, unless you're talking about beginners who simply want all features enabled out of the box, and who are not willing to do anything that involves thinking or using any method other than GUI. But, for newbies who aren't afraid to learn a bit and think about how they configure their system, I personally consider the BSD family will be better than a lot of linux distros.
Among the BSD family, I'd argue that FreeBSD is probably the best of the three for beginners who want to get up quickly without doing lots of tweaking, as it is easier to install/configure and tends to be most compatible with a range of software. Next would be NetBSD: that's not so easy to install/configure, but not significantly more difficult than FreeBSD and it's support of hardware is wider. OpenBSD would be a good choice for a beginner if they really want to learn though: virtually all features are turned off for security reasons, which means that there is quite low risk (eg being hacked) when connecting an OpenBSD system to a network (and the user will have to work to activate most features rather than [like windows, although windows is getting better in this] working out what features to deactivate).
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