Not really sure what you're talking about.
I haven't upgraded to 12-RELEASE, but I'm on 11.3-RELEASE. I have LibreOffice 6.0.7... the stable release. I have Firefox 63, just because I haven't updated in two weeks (I like to compile all my stuff with poudriere) and once my upgrade run is done this weekend I'll be caught up.
True, there isn't a Dropbox client. Sorry that's a showstopper for you.
Otherwise, I've found that oftentimes new versions of stuff will hit the ports collection before the distros update their repositories...
Sadly: it's all about the apps (Score:2)
Sadly, when Linux apps start requiring systemd, the BSDs will be nearly useless. It will happen, we all know it.
As it is:
FreeBSD has no dropbox client.
You cannot count on FreeBSD to run the latest version of LibreOffice, or anything else. Often, Linux apps will not run at all.
Not as many drivers as Linux, but that is less of a problem.
For now, at least, FreeBSD might make a good server.
Re:Sadly: it's all about the apps (Score:1)