How do you guys solve this problem? Am I missing some secret sauce or BSD-fu?
Yeah, but they've embraced SMB/CIFS for remote mounts. It seems to me that most of the people working on Netatalk are now working on Samba. They haven' zapped Netatalk support for Timemachine yet. I'm hoping me and my family will be through using Apple devices by the time they inevitably do.This is true. Apple really would like you to use AFS more than anything else.
Slack and Discord are web pages. Just use them from any old crusty browser.(Signal, Slack, Bitwarden, Discord, Chrome (for Netflix, and Spotify), etc.)
BTW, I just have a password manager app on my phone, and that's it. I don't sync with desktop, I tell the browser to NEVER REMEMBER the passwords I enter. And I don't share my passwords with anyone, even if I have a great relationship otherwise. You never know when someone gets careless - and your accounts become a mess as a result. Even if you can manage to keep your relationship in spite of that, the leaked information has the potential to bite in surprising ways.As for Bitwarden, I don't really like to tie the browser with the storage cause I also use it on my phone. Also, I share it with my wife, so switching it up isn't really feasible cause she's already used to it.
I use a cheap USB audio dongle on it.I use a Raspberry Pi 400 and i even don't have sound. Your issues are of the minor kind.
For all the people using FreeBSD as their primary desktop.
… the biggest issue is more the lack of some Linux apps and drivers.
[irc] <manu> brief plan is 5.10, move most things to base (i.e. no linuxkpi_gplv2.ko)
[irc] <manu> then have a dma-buf implem in base and if it's good enough perf-wise import everything
… Why is FreeBSD still stuck with the grossly outdated and insecure mount.smbfs …
smbfs in base: support SMBv2 and SMBv3 …
Never, EVER use reddit as a cross reference for ANYTHING! It's only for the criminally insane and will immediately cut your IQ in half.Cross-reference:
… are file lock situations, which may vary from one application to another, handled gracefully?
E.g. if you open an Excel workbook with write privileges, then will other users (properly) be limited to read-only for that file?
… I work at a large private university that uses only SMB for file sharing, …
… sometimes I don't have control over the actual server that's making the share …
… Apple really would like you to use AFS more than anything else.
I personally find some of the stories on MaliciousCompliance and AITA entertaining.Never, EVER use reddit as a cross reference for ANYTHING! It's only for the criminally insane and will immediately cut your IQ in half.
Actually, I think we are both wrong here.
I know that you could use the web browser for some of them (not Netflix/Spotify), but I was wondering if someone has it figured out. I prefer running it natively because I tend to have to reboot Firefox/Chromium every once in a while due to their memory usage becoming untenable after a while.
Nice to see I'm not the only one that does this.I use different user profiles for my browsers. One for work, one for fluff, a separate one for discord etc.
Actually, I think we are both wrong here.
My WiFi and Bluetooth cards.
Can't see all the ID's but here are some. I tried searching on that link, but didn't seem to come up with anything.Thanks, can you describe them?
Make and model.
Ideally, IDs that can be sought at <https://bsd-hardware.info/?view=search&d=FreeBSD>
Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160 MHz
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 2723
I love FreeBSD, really I do. I love its rock solid stability (my Linux installations seem to always have weird quirks from time to time), performance, directory consistency, relatively simple setup, and of course The FreeBSD Handbook.
I've dabbled with it off and on for years, but have never really made the complete plunge for my daily driver machine mostly for two reasons, which are either drivers or lack of a certain software that I need (Signal, Slack, Bitwarden, Discord, Chrome (for Netflix, and Spotify), etc.). The Linux compatibility layer helps, but it's often a hit or miss, especially on packages that require systemd and that still doesn't solve the drivers issue.
Also, this one has really stumped me. Why is FreeBSD still stuck with the grossly outdated and insecure mount.smbfs instead of mount.cifs like what Linux has, which supports SMB version 2+?
How do you guys solve this problem? Am I missing some secret sauce or BSD-fu?
It matters because it would encourage developers to improve FreeBSD for desktop.
So, I totally agree with this! +1
The fanatic "FreeBSD is designed for servers, bugger off desktops" slogan we all hear does not make sense at all. The more users you have, the more contributions you will get, the more third party software will be ported to FreeBSD...This is a while(1) loop that will repeat itself, simple as that.
proprietary, non-portable apps is possibly more appropriate a statement.I guess the current consensus seems to be just use Linux for desktop unless you can you can forego non-BSD apps.