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I've been using FreeBSD on my desktop and notebook for the past 3 years and I have nothing to complain! Granted, I do not have the habit of playing games or us

I've been using FreeBSD on my desktop and notebook for the past 3 years and I have nothing to complain! Granted, I do not have the habit of playing games or using large, unsupported software (say, Photoshop and friends). My daily applications consist of Emacs and Firefox, so my feedback may be limited in scope. I'm not sure what the status is, but last I checked Electron did not work on FreeBSD. If you use something Electron-based, you might want to take a look at it. I also am unable to access my iPhone filesystem and to watch Netflix movies. But for both cases, I blame the vendor and not FreeBSD. A VM on bhyve quickly solves the problem.

qyz721 8y ago
What kind of overhead does bhyve have? Is it on the order of KVM?
- loeg 8y ago
  Overhead for the host, or the guest? Host is comparable — majority of the cost will be memory allocated to the guest. Guest overhead will vary by workload. I know for example that virtio-net performance lags Linux, because virtio-net was designed for Linux skb's and doesn't align well with FreeBSD's mbufs. Give it a shot and see how it compares, I guess.