To be honest on desktop hardware... or laptop to be more precise you might or might not be lucky. A lot of stuff changed in that area for FreeBSD (and the other

To be honest on desktop hardware... or laptop to be more precise you might or might not be lucky. A lot of stuff changed in that area for FreeBSD (and the other BSDs too actually, despite them all having their own kernels). So if you end up not being lucky just know that a lot of things already have been working nicely in FreeBSD 11 for a while, which isn't released yet. It will still take a while until it is released, but if you just want to play with it it actually is a viable option and there are people running the -CURRENT branch on their main desktops. It's probably not too fun though if you don't know the system yet. FreeBSD 11 schedule can be found here btw: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/schedule.html https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/schedule.html And one more side note: A FreeBSD 10.x Release might actually bring a lot of new hardware support much earlier. It is also way more stable. It's called 10-STABLE branch for a reason. :) https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.2R/schedule.html https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.2R/schedule.html