Do you use FreeBSD on metal as your daily driver? Which version? What DE or WM do you use? Do you run any other OS alongside or virtually?

malco_2001 said:
Alright I'll stop promoting. Thanks for the questions.
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Don't stop. :) I had one of the original Macs (the beige one with the 9 inch screen) and always enjoyed the cohesivness of the system. Wound up with one of the iMacs (the one that the base was a half basketball) but time moved on.
I've been running WindowMaker on my *nix systems for a long time to give me close to look and feel. GnuStep: a good set of libraries a good baseline.
So your project(s) is(are) good. I will probably look closer to see if I can contribute (not promising anything) but I like what you have so far.
 
mer said:
The time when programming was smart.
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In all honesty, the old Mac systems were "interesting" in the calling conventions and memory management was also rather unusual. But it worked, from time to time I still fire up the basilisk with an old image. The GUI was a lot better than windows, they had actual style guides. That is something many others don't have.
 
Crivens said:
he GUI was a lot better than windows, they had actual style guides. That is something many others don't have.
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Agreed. "here are the UX/UI guidelines that are more than just guidelines. Follow them" The fact that Apple was able to enforce that for as long as they did was amazing. I think more than a few people started to get disenchanted when Apple relaxed "you must follow these".
That's why I still keep an eye on GnuStep/OpenStep (and compare to NextStep).
 
nxjoseph said:
Do you run any other OS alongside or virtually? Which one(s)? Why do you need the other OS(s)?
Yes, Alpine Linux on bhyve, for using adb/fastboot on my phone.
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I use heimdall on FreeBSD natively to flash stuff to my Android phone, and it so nice and fast!

You can also compile adb via /usr/ports/devel/android-tools on FreeBSD. Why won't you try it? Better than dealing with Linux.
 
cracauer@ said:
FreeBSD and Linux to compare them
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On my desktop computer, FreeBSD + Plasma runs much faster and smoother than Siduction Linux (Debian Sid, basically) + Plasma. I only use FreeBSD now (well, I boot into Siduction to back up the FreeBSD drive from time to time). I also had a negative experience with Btrfs while ZFS has been a true marvel. I'm very enamored of ZFS and the Virtual Memory system.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Do you use FreeBSD on metal as your daily driver? Which version? What DE or WM do you use? Do you run any other OS alongside or virtually? Which one(s)? Why do you need the other OS(s)? Explain anything else you want about your system.

Me: Yes, I do. 15.0 as of today. KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland + Kronkhite tiling extension. I use a Windows 11 VM on VirtualBox for some automation stuff that I made using Autohotkey. I also use a bluetooth speaker via a dongle and two monitors.
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Yes, using FreeBSD on my Framework 12 laptop. Used older version on my Threadripper workstation but sold it.
No DE, only Tilers: spectrwm (some other from time to time)
Used Arch Linux until november as second OS on the workstation and on another laptop where FreeBSD can't be used.
Started with RISC/iX (Acorn computer Unix) and Irix (used SGI workstation for years as 3d cg artist). NetBSD as my first FOSS OS. GNU/Linux as main/second OS from 2007 (or 2008) until november 2025.
Never used MS-DOS and Windows until recently for a job. For this, if you don't known that a software exist, you don't need it...
Two Linux distro may be installed on my computers, Alpine and Obarun. Don't like the others.
 
loveydovey said:
You can also compile adb via /usr/ports/devel/android-tools on FreeBSD. Why won't you try it? Better than dealing with Linux.
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I'm kind-of curious why the pkg version isn't fixed? https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/adb-android-tools.93731/

I use LineageOS and they have an in-OS upgrader; I'm mainly fine with that, but liked adding a custom HOSTS file with adb push in recovery which made doing the whole fastboot/adb sideload easy alongside that.

I didn't want build tools/src on my install and booted a Linux LiveUSB once a week for 5 mins :p
 
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