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It is very picky on the hardware it supports out of the box. That means you'll get problems with Hardware that came out after Haswell. It works ok on my Lenovo

by geff82 10y ago

It is very picky on the hardware it supports out of the box. That means you'll get problems with Hardware that came out after Haswell. It works ok on my Lenovo X240 (that I bought brand new in Juli 2016 in a maxed out version at a very good price). But after a short trial I decided to go with Xubuntu as the hardware support is much better and most developer relevant software today runs on Linux without hassles. I love the FreeBSD on my company's server, totally hassle free. But on the desktop, it is for fans, not the general public. But anyway: try it out, get a feel for it.

0mp 10y ago
It's worth mentioning that TrueOS is a rolling-release based on the FreeBSD bleeding-edge CURRENT branch. As a result the hardware support is still better than in the supported FreeBSD releases (10.3 and 11.0).
floatboth 10y ago
IIRC TrueOS actually integrates https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics so integrated graphics after Haswell should work.
PleaseHelpMe 10y ago
Xubuntu user here. Very nice, lightweight distro. Highly recommended for any developers
- luckydude 10y ago
  Me too. Light enough that I don't notice it but mainstream enough that stuff just works.
JdeBP 10y ago
> FreeBSD ... on the desktop However: the questioner wanted to know about TrueOS, not about FreeBSD. The desktop with TrueOS is significantly different to the desktop with FreeBSD. There is extra desktop stuff that comes in the box with TrueOS. And the desktop stuff is done somewhat differently. With some FreeBSD-derived operating systems such as GhostBSD one gets "flavours" of the operating system according to the desktop environment, like "GhostBSD MATE" and "GhostBSD XFCE". With TrueOS, there aren't such multiple "flavours". Rather, PCDM allows one to select from multiple desktop environments at login time, and the desktop environments are available side by side in a single "flavour" of the "desktop" operating system. TrueOS is in fact "flavoured" as "desktop" versus "server", rather than as "MATE" versus "XFCE" versus whatever. There are a number of "TrueOS-own" tools that are added to those desktops, as well, including (for examples) the Life Preserver, the PC-BSD Control Panel, AppCafe, and the System Updater.

by geff82 10y ago

0mp 10y ago

It's worth mentioning that TrueOS is a rolling-release based on the FreeBSD bleeding-edge CURRENT branch. As a result the hardware support is still better than in the supported FreeBSD releases (10.3 and 11.0).

floatboth 10y ago

IIRC TrueOS actually integrates https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics so integrated graphics after Haswell should work.

PleaseHelpMe 10y ago

Xubuntu user here. Very nice, lightweight distro. Highly recommended for any developers

luckydude 10y ago
Me too. Light enough that I don't notice it but mainstream enough that stuff just works.

JdeBP 10y ago

> FreeBSD ... on the desktop However: the questioner wanted to know about TrueOS, not about FreeBSD. The desktop with TrueOS is significantly different to the desktop with FreeBSD. There is extra desktop stuff that comes in the box with TrueOS. And the desktop stuff is done somewhat differently. With some FreeBSD-derived operating systems such as GhostBSD one gets "flavours" of the operating system according to the desktop environment, like "GhostBSD MATE" and "GhostBSD XFCE". With TrueOS, there aren't such multiple "flavours". Rather, PCDM allows one to select from multiple desktop environments at login time, and the desktop environments are available side by side in a single "flavour" of the "desktop" operating system. TrueOS is in fact "flavoured" as "desktop" versus "server", rather than as "MATE" versus "XFCE" versus whatever. There are a number of "TrueOS-own" tools that are added to those desktops, as well, including (for examples) the Life Preserver, the PC-BSD Control Panel, AppCafe, and the System Updater.