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I want to try BSD one day but these sorts of articles put me off. I used to enjoy trying to get things working but I just don't have that sort of time anymore.

by xupybd 4y ago

I want to try BSD one day but these sorts of articles put me off. I used to enjoy trying to get things working but I just don't have that sort of time anymore. I understand that the community only has so many resources to support the various hardware around. I suspect one BSDs strengths is that the smaller community is able to follow a more cohesive vision. But for me this means I'm probably not going learn it until I can just run it out of the box.

ndiddy 4y ago
In every image I've seen of a FreeBSD developer conference, the vast majority of the developers are running FreeBSD in a virtual machine on a Macbook. I guess they aren't considering real hardware support as a priority.
- trasz 4y ago
  This seems to have changed over the last decade though.
- binkHN 4y ago
  You aren't wrong. This is part of the reason I tend to buy ThinkPads; a large portion of the OpenBSD developers use ThinkPads and dogfood OpenBSD on them!
  - adam_ung 4y ago
    Same for FreeBSD folks. Most of the FreeBSD developers I know develop on ThinkPads.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  I run FreeBSD bare metal on my main desktop (Intel NUC). But I don't need WiFi nor Bluetooth so that helps a lot. Don't have these on my windows (big gaming box) desktop either. I'm just not a laptop person really. Only for work. That makes the situation a lot easier.
- adam_ung 4y ago
  They actually do. Graphics and WiFi is top priority at the moment on the technology roadmap of the FreeBSD Foundation: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/
nortonham 4y ago
Try it in a VM first. It's actually helpful to try it that way first, so you can used to how it works. If you can afford it, get a used thinkpad....a t430 or t420 should be pretty cheap, and will run free/net/open without problem. If those machines are too old for your liking, ask around here on the subreddits of each OS, and users will have hardware recommendations for you. oh and the x1 carbon family seems to be popular among the freebsd crowd iirc.

by xupybd 4y ago

ndiddy 4y ago

In every image I've seen of a FreeBSD developer conference, the vast majority of the developers are running FreeBSD in a virtual machine on a Macbook. I guess they aren't considering real hardware support as a priority.

trasz 4y ago
This seems to have changed over the last decade though.
binkHN 4y ago
You aren't wrong. This is part of the reason I tend to buy ThinkPads; a large portion of the OpenBSD developers use ThinkPads and dogfood OpenBSD on them!
- adam_ung 4y ago
  Same for FreeBSD folks. Most of the FreeBSD developers I know develop on ThinkPads.
GekkePrutser 4y ago
I run FreeBSD bare metal on my main desktop (Intel NUC). But I don't need WiFi nor Bluetooth so that helps a lot. Don't have these on my windows (big gaming box) desktop either. I'm just not a laptop person really. Only for work. That makes the situation a lot easier.
adam_ung 4y ago
They actually do. Graphics and WiFi is top priority at the moment on the technology roadmap of the FreeBSD Foundation: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/

nortonham 4y ago

Try it in a VM first. It's actually helpful to try it that way first, so you can used to how it works. If you can afford it, get a used thinkpad....a t430 or t420 should be pretty cheap, and will run free/net/open without problem. If those machines are too old for your liking, ask around here on the subreddits of each OS, and users will have hardware recommendations for you. oh and the x1 carbon family seems to be popular among the freebsd crowd iirc.