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Hello Humans, I'd like to experiment with writing device drivers for various thunderbolt PCIe cards. The end goal is to use FreeBSD as a ZFS backed Thunderbolt DAS for my macs. I'd figured Thunderbolt and ZFS would be a great match for post production work without having to fill up drive space...

after the ship sinks it becomes... rusty. I'll see myself out.

I've been meaning to find this post. I think this would be a fun project on its own. What would you suggest? Any features to add and/or remove? Ideally, a from scratch, portable, BSD licensed implementation would be nice. I'd be able to write stuff for my Mac and FreeBSD; since...

That idiotic touch bar and terrible butterfly-switch keyboards on previous gen MacBook Pro's. Apple configurator was required, on a separate mac, to reinstall bridgeOS for that monstrosity. Stupid. It was a really bad era for MacBooks.

You can't go wrong with Lenovo Thinkpads. A maxed out T480 should do you well for the next several years. If you have the cash, an X1 Extreme from the same year is good too. Good luck configuring firmware on that thing though.. The Lenovo Legion laptops are pretty slick looking for gaming...

Here's the thing. It already exists; i'm using it on macOS. It's called Quartz. :) (which greatly inspired Wayland) I'm just waiting for that brave soul to write an open source implementation for the BSDs. To add; Wayland should've been API based, instead of protocol based. Canonical had the...

This is empirically false.

I think it's impractical to expect a software project, conceived from an english-speaking country, to prioritize multi-lingual support. I mean, which is more economically feasible; multilingual support from a projects conception, or simply other foreign users learning the basics of english? I'm...

systemd, Wayland, etc.. all badly designed, Red Hat vendor lock-in child projects. When systemDisease subsumed all of important userspace, and GNOME services (forcing all major distros to adopt it); I knew it was over. The IBM acquisition drove the final nail in the coffin for Linux...

GIMP and Krita are raster graphics editors. Inkscape is for vector graphics editing. I believe Krita does have support for vector editing though.

If only a Qt-based alternative to GIMP existed; we could probably leave GTK behind us. It's pretty bad IMO.

Precisely. Someone release the kraken and close this bad boy.

Then why didn't you just inquire about that to begin with? Instead of trying to incite a flamewar between two different systems. Like ralphbsz said earlier. You need to specify your particular use case. There are many categories that fall under the "desktop computing" space. For which a lot of...

You should really take a step back and understand the fundamental differences between FreeBSD and GNU/Linux; there's a huge gap in your knowledge there. This whole comparison is moot. Software support is a matter of corporate sponsorship and crowdsourcing. FreeBSD is not responsible for that...