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BSD documentation is great because it the systems change so little you don't find twenty out of date references on how to configure your DHCP client. But as a

• EliteGadget 11mo ago
  > BSD documentation is great because it the systems change so little you don't find twenty out of date references on how to configure your DHCP client. While there are a out of date tutorials in Linux land, at least I can find out how I might do something and then I can figure things out from there. I do know how to use the man page system, however simply knowing what to look for is the biggest challenge. e.g I was trying to configure two finger scrolling. The freebsd wiki itself appeared out of date. So it looks like you use libinput X driver package (which I forgot the name of now) and do some config in X. It would be nice if this was covered in the handbook as I think a lot of people would like two finger scrolling working on their laptops. > But as a desktop OS, yes they lack in a lot of areas, mainly hardware support/laptop support. Actually FreeBSD appears quite well hardware wise at least on some of the hardware I have. My laptops are all boring corp business refurbs that I know work well with Linux/BSDs. The problem is that often I require using software which does not work on FreeBSD/OpenBSD or is difficult to configure. The other issue is that there are things that appear to be broken for quite a while that are in pkgs (at least with FreeBSD) so trying to configure a VM with a desktop resolution over something relatively low isn't possible at least with Qemu.