I went full-time FreeBSD for a couple weeks. These are my takeaways.

If I can use FreeBSD, then literally anyone can use it. Although I will admit that there was a few times I felt like giving up. However, when I felt like giving up, I thought things over, and then I realized that it was simply easier to stick with FreeBSD than to reinstall some version of Linux in order to replace it. Been using it as my daily driver for about three or four months, and I think that I'm now over the hump, and I now feel more comfortable with it.
 
Looking at comments for that: "Eating your own dog food is not so pleasing a thing after all" said someone about the FreeBSD Foundation executive director trying to daily drive FreeBSD (for 10 mins a day only). Does anyone even know what PR is? Do we need a new Executive Director?
 
Just last week I brought my FreeBSD laptop into a vendor training session at work. First day I did try the corporate Windows laptop like every normal person. It sucked. So I figured that these were vendor labs, nothing company specific, nothing confidential.. so what the heck. Connected my personal FreeBSD laptop to the guest wifi (it did this automagically, much to my surprise), and off we went. This all worked without a hitch, faster and smoother than the Windows laptop that's 6 years newer than my private work horse. What always surprises me the most is that nobody ever seems to notice a KDE desktop versus Windows 11. Sitting in a meeting room with just a laptop screen called for virtual desktops. KDE has these. Super useful! Nobody ever noticed, even though we were paired up differently by the trainer multiple times over four days, looking at the shared screen for hours together. I've been daily driving FreeBSD for what.. decades now. Recently, with the improvements to WiFi, my laptop was rolled back into the fold as well. It's been perfect!
 
loveydovey said:
Looking at comments for that: "Eating your own dog food is not so pleasing a thing after all" said someone about the FreeBSD Foundation executive director trying to daily drive FreeBSD (for 10 mins a day only). Does anyone even know what PR is? Do we need a new Executive Director?
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I don't see things that way at all. The focus of the foundation has only recently put focus on this use case.

The fact that the Deb Goodkin is using the system in place of another system and able to get work done as required is a proof of concept for the success of the initiative to focus on laptop usage.

I think it's pretty cool news myself.

EDIT: From Deb's presentation "Daily Habit: 10 Minutes Minimum". This is not 10 minutes a day only. This is a minimum usage time daily.

EDIT 2: As usual I have may edits to my post. I think it's important that this use case is solid and works great for a laptop/workstation/desktop user. After reading the presentation I was surprised at how much daily use software solutions worked or partially worked for Deb. Those are software that I don't use myself but impressive that they work. I think the fact that laptop focus and server focus are remaining separate options during install is absolutely perfect as well. A step in the wrong direction would be compiling a bulk of preinstalled programs that would take more time to remove than actually installing the system. That's the problem with other systems. So, I believe the foundation are doing a really impressive job on this.
 
I was thinking, wow, something wrong with installing KDE and stuff like Konsole/Dolphin/Konqueror? If you use KDE on Linux, KDE on FreeBSD works the same.

Networking in jails - yeah, OP really should have paid better attention to the blogs on klarasystems.com. Even IPv4 network stack can be finicky if you don't get the basics right.

RTFM, then KISS.

FreeBSD can do everything Linux can, and then some. Hell, FreeBSD beat Linux to ZFS integration, and even the Ports Collection was an inspiration to Gentoo's Portage.

I've been daily driving FreeBSD for years, close to a decade now. And I'm writing this on a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 2-in-1 laptop that has a Ryzen AI 445 processor. And yeah, KDE works fine on it, I can even watch Youtube.

But no, OP really should learn to follow the official documentation, which is the FreeBSD Handbook, and not rely on cursory glances at secondhand info from Youtube. Otherwise, it's gonna be an ugly experience all around. :/
 
MrBSD said:
Im just happy that drm-612-kmod was finally released so i can switch back to FreeBSD and use my RDNA4 based AMD card. Lets hope it works.
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Sadly, drm-612 panics (without a dump) my HP 840. Details are in a PR. I suspect it's not initializing a GPU register.
 
loveydovey said:
Does anyone even know what PR is? Do we need a new Executive Director?
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I know everyone here loves to configure every darn bit about FreeBSD so much that everyone breaks out in hives when "what will be the default UI" conversations come out, but out there in the world of The Computer Is A Tool That Better Do Useful Stuff, where the Director lives trying to raise money and manage things, nobody has time for that and the computer needs to load the one and only correct driver when hardware gets plugged in.

Chromebook and Android are the top successful GUI mass-market Linux stories I can think of off the top of my head.

Anyway, this seems appropriate. If anything, the foundation needs an IT department trying to solve requests like this so they know where the pain points are.
 
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