Introduce yourself, tell us who you are and why you chose FreeBSD

loveydovey said:
Well, there IS a user here with a username logvoid who is one of the two users following me who has zero posts and zero karma and a recent account creation date and last seen today.
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I do have a propensity to rant endlessly but I've learned this is friend scaring behavior and I'm working on scaling back. I'm just a bad student who loves to learn when alone. Really a terrible set of traits because learning so often involves communication and being together...
 
Hi folks,

I am not new, this is my professional attire.
Please don't ask who I am cause I like keep separated working stuff from personal stuff!

Cheers!
 
mrd said:
Please don't ask who I am cause I like keep separated working stuff from personal stuff!
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You know I can see who you are?

Also, rule 11.

Users are allowed to have only one active account. If you feel you have justification for requiring a new account, please contact an administrator to discuss your situation. Users who have multiple accounts without approval of an administrator may be subjected to infractions or bans without notice.
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https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-forums-rules.38922/
 
mrd said:
I acted in good faith.
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I got that, if I had the slightest suspicion of malicious intent it would have been killed in the moderation queue 😁

mrd said:
I want to create a port of a software I use for working, I thought it would be better have a second account that is focusing only on this task.
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Sounds reasonable, the email address you used for the port maintainership (and bugzilla) doesn't have to match with your forum account though. Don't care about that. Or will this only be used at your work? Not published? That's fine too. I'm sure there's lots of folks around that can help putting it together and make it work.
 
SirDice said:
I got that, if I had the slightest suspicion of malicious intent it would have been killed in the moderation queue 😁


Sounds reasonable, the email address you used for the port maintainership (and bugzilla) doesn't have to match with your forum account though. Don't care about that. Or will this only be used at your work? Not published? That's fine too. I'm sure there's lots of folks around that can help putting it together and make it work.
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I am going to use this account only for being the maintainer of this port.
But I am in the learning process and I need help because between port and poudriere my brain is already exploding... 🤯
 
SirDice said:
Alright. But you're going to have to go through this whole 10 posts and 10 days moderation stage again though ;)
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Never mind, this stuff is very serious for me, I do what it takes!

Thanks again for allowing this second account, it will really help my mental sanity!
 
After some 36 hours of building from ports, I now have qutebrowser running on a FreeBSD Laptop installation.

I have been among data scientists for some time, and python and R were rather popular in such a crowd. I saw more C++ as qutebrowser built just now than ever before in my life. C, I see a bit when I poke around man pages but do not write much C myself...yet.

I tested audio with mpv just now as well. Thrilled that I have a browser and working audio so far. Was worried that stuff might not work but everything seems fine on the laptop.
 
wingdings said:
I got forced to run FreeBSD after my Thinkpad started to crash with Linux and Windows. Legitimately Linux and Windows will no longer boot or run on my Thinkpad without eventually hanging my entire computer.
So after a failed install with HaikuOS I decided haha FreeBSD after having analognowhere influence my decision heavily as I was reading the entirety of that webcomic and couldn't get it out of my head that BSD would be cool to have on a laptop.
I didn't expect there to be so much documentation that it would be really easy to just setup and run it as a desktop operating system on my Thinkpad.
Complete with hardware acceleration for video playback as-well and a-lot of other things like being able to just emulate games and after setting up some things having my controller just work.
My only regret is not installing an older version of FreeBSD for 32 bit support.
But eh thats fine when I can just run Linux apps instead and run Wine through a Linux sandbox instead.
Honestly didnt' expect FreeBSD to be so much easier in comparison to installing Linux with basically non-existent documentation or expecting you to know how this jumbled up piece of operating system tech works that is the average Linux distro.

Anyway I'm just some dumb "hacker" outside of that. Who mainly plays games and does stupid stuff with computers and hardware.
Almost all my computers are "cursed" or messed up in someway shape or form in terms of their general state of being and what they are.
I come from the true internet and got pretty much forced to abandon the fake one overnight with the new government regulations worldwide as of recently.
I decided to just rant out into the void here and have some moderator laugh at what I post on here which what brought me here.
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Lovely post lol. Made my day.
 
I left Windows for Ubuntu in 2005, having been clued into Ubuntu by a programmer who was excited about it. I was disenchanted with the increasing control Microsoft was exerting over my environment, having started with DOS in the mid 1990's. I also felt that paying for software didn't make a lot of sense and FOSS was attractive. I stayed happily with Ubuntu until the last year or two, when I've been exploring other OS's. My sense is that Ubuntu is drifting steadily into controlling the experience and making it more difficult to really understand my laptop environment. I started trying a variety of OS's on virtual machines, but actually burned out a laptop with the effort, and concluded that I need separate laptops for separate systems. I'm nervous about partitions, not being too techy. I discovered how happy all the OS's are with Lenovo Thinkpads and picked a few OS's to get to know, with a goal to pick the best one eventually. I currently run Ubuntu, Manjaro on AMD64, NixOS, and GhostBSD on Libreboot. I had wanted to try FreeBSD on Libreboot, but my installer, Leah Rowe, had some difficulties with FreeBSD on the laptop at that time with Libreboot. GhostBSD installed seamlessly. Nevertheless, with FreeBSD as the kernel for Ghost BSD, I remain curious about FreeBSD, and am eagerly anticipating near-term developments for laptops. Frankly, I am skittish about FreeBSD 15 for laptops and want to wait until the kinks work out. With FreeBSD 16, I want to add another Thinkpad using FreeBSD. Then let the best OS win!
 
Hi all. Old time linux user here. Working as Jira Admin / DevSecOps (gitlab/gke). For the first time with Freebsd 15 i was able to install it without problems on some spare laptops around home.
Very very nice performance. I will be using FreeBSD as daily driver at home so mainly for support when working (ssh/rdp/web app) , some youtube bach collection, latex working (building role playing game in latex is a nice hobby)... no server use for now. i keep RH on my nas/docker project at least for now.

BHH
 
Hi all, I'm Mick from Australia.

Dabbled in FreeBSD in 2005, but got sucked back into the Linux world. Just a desktop user really, setup the occasional home server etc - not involved in any development.

Have become disillusioned with Linux, since the corporatisation of Red Hat really. I don't really fit in with the post-2010 new Left either, which seems to be the primary focus. Jumped to OpenMandriva, but ended up on GhostBSD. It's a great project, but I don't like the hand-holding (but appreciate the philosophy). Anyway, moved upstream and just had a lot of fun getting things installed on an ancient Pentium n3700 NUC.

Dual booting on my main MSI/Ryzen 7 system now - already having some issues with USB resume/suspend. Also had to tether my phone, which it recognised as ue0, to be able to get the Realtek NIC driver. But I miss this stuff - computing is fun again! Will no doubt see you all in a support sub-forum soon haha!
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I encourage you to use the forum. It's usually good help.
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Thanks for the encouragement! Definitely will shortly. Ditched the Ryzen system - keeping for Windows/gaming only. But repurposed an old HP Elitedesk 800 G2 today as my TV's more energy efficient HTPC/sofa PC, with a second monitor going to the nearby desk for daily driver use. Wireless kb/m, I can take to the sofa or desk! Has worked out so well. Managed to install Xlibre with a MATE desktop.

One issue with sound over HDMI/DP adapter, but that will be on the forum soon. I'm generally finding FreeBSD so much easier to configure and am loving 'doas' over 'sudo' for some reason. Probably just novelty value. Did not think that I would get all this working today - FreeBSD is not that scary (with well-supported hardware) - good times!
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Another successful Xlibre install. I'm so jealous. It's not the right time for me to tweak my desktop PC, but I'll do it soon, and the laptop too.

Of course it's not! (I use sudo, though; I guess I'm used to it).
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For sure - just trying out the native environment. I'll probably install sudo and maybe bash in time if sh poses any limitation. I was pretty POSIX compliant in my previous use though anyway. Yeah, I'm stoked Xlibre worked for me.
 
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