What would you like to see over the next few FreeBSD versions?

LoganGreystone said:
I known Q4OS, but it is secure? I think if Trinity desktop is secure, why is not offer by default in distros like Debian, Fedora, OpenSuSE or in others BSDs like OpenBSD, who kept KDE3 alongside KDE4 in their repositories for a long time? Mate (from GNOME2) have in other distros, but Trinity not. There are logs from Q4OS' updates to see if it have more security updates than Debian (for the packages from Triniry desktop)? I have doubts that Trinity's Konqueror is safe.
I seriously do not hate Trinity, if I see that it is really secure I will join your call for someone to port it to FreeBSD because I would use it myself.
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There is also a PCLinuxOS Linux distribution spin made by Present Arms Linux. As far as concerns for security, I believe the project home page would be the best place to check. https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
 
malco_2001 said:
Automatic graphics detection for any support device and proper fallback when devices are not supported. No manual configuration required whatsoever.
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How about providing different setup profiles for FreeBSD installations, if not existing yet?
The current default is surely great for server and developer oriented folks like me and well, everything is available!

Disclaimer: Last time I installed was for my FreeBSD 14.3 test machine. All this might already exist, I am a FreeBSD newbie myself.

The plain user and newbie audience is surely overwhelmed.
EFI/PC boot, xorg config w/ package selection could be magic items in the installer
plus performing all the sysctl.conf etc recommended for many packages.

Then we could have a system and package profile like server, desktop-1 (xorg, KDE), desktop-2, ...
with the goal that even Dilbert's grandma could do it :)
 
When installing (any) FreeBSD O/S -- and the machine has an NVidia card -- the install should "just work" and one should be able to install X or whatever and go on with their day. The NVidia card (I personally have) is an RTX 4070 - which is a very very common NVidia card these days.

And NO - I should not have to self compile a new NVidia driver from /usr/ports/graphics and install it myself. Thank you, that does work but it is a terrible user experience. NVidia graphic card drivers should work immediately on (upgrades) and (brand new installs).

You can see details on this issue on these threads:
  1. Can't load nvidia-drm.ko on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE : unsupported file type.
  2. upgrading from 14.2 to 14.3 didn't went well
  3. (ADDED 10/9/2025): and this: !!!!WARNING ALL FREEBSD DESKTOP USERS!!!! : Insane pkg's new version upgrade of installed apps
 
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covacat said:
well for broadcom and others is even worse. you have to write the driver and compile it first
so nvidia is still ok
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NVidia is (slightly different) in that NVidia has provided a downloadable/installable graphics driver specifically for FreeBSD for many decades. I have been installing NVidia drivers into FreeBSD machines for many years.

I realize that (many other vendors) have issues too - but let's start (somewhere) and get the best baseline support we can get for vendors we know should always work.
 
CShell said:
When installing (any) FreeBSD O/S -- and the machine has an NVidia card -- the install should "just work" and one should be able to install X or whatever and go on with their day. The NVidia card (I personally have) is an RTX 4070 - which is a very very common NVidia card these days.

And NO - I should not have to self compile a new NVidia driver from /usr/ports/graphics and install it myself. Thank you, that does work but it is a terrible user experience. NVidia graphic card drivers should work immediately on (upgrades) and (brand new installs).

You can see details on this issue on these threads:
  1. Can't load nvidia-drm.ko on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE : unsupported file type.
  2. upgrading from 14.2 to 14.3 didn't went well
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About the first paragraph, it's x11-servers/xorg-server to be fixed for it.

It does NOT look for proprietary nvidia driver (except with graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod) and stick with old nv driver (or nouveau that is NOT ported to FreeBSD), so specific configuration is mandatory.

And about the second paragraph, oncd patch at review D52178 is confirmed (on official kmod builder) works as expected, accepted and lands, pre-built pkg should be provided.
 
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