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It used to be desktop-friendly enough to develop on. It's not a purely embedded OS.
by speed_spread 2y ago
It used to be desktop-friendly enough to develop on. It's not a purely embedded OS.
- 0x457 2y agoI wouldn't call it desktop-friendly. Yeah, you could install and develop for QNX on it, but that was pretty much all you could do on it? Definitely won't be playing any video games on it.
- 0x457 2y agoIgnore this, I read "photon" as "proton"
- speed_spread 2y agoHaha, got it. Cheers.
- speed_spread 2y agoIMO "Gaming" is a level above "Desktop". You wouldn't play games on FreeBSD either yet it is a perfectly acceptable desktop OS for productivity apps. The question, can QNX still run Firefox and LibreOffice?
- 0x457 2y agoSo I've used FreeBSD as a desktop for a very long time. I don't think it's acceptable desktop OS by today's standards at all: - graphics card drivers years behind (actually what made me switch to linux) - A lot of linux graphic environment tied itself to systemd and it's friends - Specifically, firefox lacks some features that available on Linux, Windows and macOS (related to memory consumptions and overall snappiness) - Many things depend on FreeBSD specific patches to work and if you aren't a seasoned porter, good luck porting it yourself[1] [1]: this one obviously depends on what kind of software you require. For it me it's a miss.