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Same recommendation for desktop too. Switching from Arch to FreeBSD couple of months ago was the best move I could do. Silly way to compare stuff but my Arch a

Same recommendation for desktop too. Switching from Arch to FreeBSD couple of months ago was the best move I could do. Silly way to compare stuff but my Arch always run with processor at 70-72 degrees Celsius. Same setup on FreeBSD and my processor runs at 39-45. Since everything else but kernel runs as exact copy it shows to me that FreeBSD either has less kernel overhead or does scheduling better.

drsopp 9y ago
I remember back in the 90s when I listened to my 100MHz CPU with a radio. FreeBSD sounded like gentle raindrops. Windows 95 screamed.
- CyberDildonics 9y ago
  You should do that again, a writeup on that with audio would be garner plenty of attention.
danieldk 9y ago
Same recommendation for desktop too. A serious question, since such recommendations are regularly thrown around in these threads. Can you run FreeBSD with a recent AMD GPU (I know that there is the proprietary NVIDIA driver)? Does Wayland work? What about HiDPI screens with GNOME? Is there support for Dropbox now? Is Chrome supported? Does it use GPU acceleration for movie playback? (As far as I could gather the answer to most of these questions is still 'no'.)
- binaryapparatus 9y ago
  Sorry I have no need or use for any of the listed packages/items. Nvidia works extremely well. I don't have AMD. I won't be using Wayland any time soon even if I could. GNOME is or is becoming systemd hostage so I won't install it ever on any system. Dropbox is not welcome for me. Chromium works well. I think GPU acceleration works well. It all depends on what you use but definitely works well for my needs.
philsnow 9y ago
Are you running arch userspace with freebsd kernel? Is this like running debian kfreebsd ?
- binaryapparatus 9y ago
  No, I was running 'pure' Arch, same as I do with FreeBSD now. List of my packages is very minimal so it can be assumed they reliably work the same way on both systems. I am using offlineimap, mutt, vdirsyncer, khal, khard, w3m, urxvt...
PopsiclePete 9y ago
I'm going to go ahead and not recommend that people run FreeBSD on their desktops. FreeBSD's hardware support is pretty poor - they don't even support intel graphics cards from 3 years ago - https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Intel_Graphics https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Intel_Graphics. WiFi support can also be spotty.

drsopp 9y ago

I remember back in the 90s when I listened to my 100MHz CPU with a radio. FreeBSD sounded like gentle raindrops. Windows 95 screamed.

CyberDildonics 9y ago
You should do that again, a writeup on that with audio would be garner plenty of attention.

danieldk 9y ago

Same recommendation for desktop too. A serious question, since such recommendations are regularly thrown around in these threads. Can you run FreeBSD with a recent AMD GPU (I know that there is the proprietary NVIDIA driver)? Does Wayland work? What about HiDPI screens with GNOME? Is there support for Dropbox now? Is Chrome supported? Does it use GPU acceleration for movie playback? (As far as I could gather the answer to most of these questions is still 'no'.)

binaryapparatus 9y ago
Sorry I have no need or use for any of the listed packages/items. Nvidia works extremely well. I don't have AMD. I won't be using Wayland any time soon even if I could. GNOME is or is becoming systemd hostage so I won't install it ever on any system. Dropbox is not welcome for me. Chromium works well. I think GPU acceleration works well. It all depends on what you use but definitely works well for my needs.

philsnow 9y ago

Are you running arch userspace with freebsd kernel? Is this like running debian kfreebsd ?

binaryapparatus 9y ago
No, I was running 'pure' Arch, same as I do with FreeBSD now. List of my packages is very minimal so it can be assumed they reliably work the same way on both systems. I am using offlineimap, mutt, vdirsyncer, khal, khard, w3m, urxvt...

PopsiclePete 9y ago

I'm going to go ahead and not recommend that people run FreeBSD on their desktops. FreeBSD's hardware support is pretty poor - they don't even support intel graphics cards from 3 years ago - https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Intel_Graphics https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Intel_Graphics. WiFi support can also be spotty.