How about just following the Handbook? No other tools needed.
Other blogs tend to be the opposite and outdated but AI will religiously follow them.
If it's a static database blob, it can be made torrent-based or some similar bandwidth-dividing system. I would donate to a project attempt for a local LLM without dependency on corporate services. That's just a bad idea. Something else will own everything you generate with it without 1 exception. Everything.
Which part of the installation was troublesome for you? Because the FreeBSD installation itself is fairly straightforward.
It was absolutely not trolling at all. Just a curious idea of a "newcomer", who used FreeBSD last time around year 2000, and now tried it again, and happy to see how good is it.
I was wrong in stating the original entry. The installation was easy, the post install config was a bit harder than in Linux, but with the help of ChatGPT worked smoothly and fine. And this gave me the idea. But it seems that (according to the general opinion here) it would let the proles also use FreeBSD, what seems not to be a welcomed idea. But its OK for me, on my machines it works fine
Seems I need fireproof underwear indeed
My mistake was writing install, not post install config.Nah: If install is too-easy, it'll give the impression everything else is easy. I can manually keyboard through install in 3 mins; post-install is a whole different ordeal per-computer
I also don't imagine current install can reasonably be any easier if you can read the handbook
So, no AI "help" needed during the install
I'd say it's easier to do on FreeBSD than Linux once you get the hang of it and have a bit more experience with the "FreeBSD-way" of doing things.
Post install config was much easier using AI help. Like sleep mode after laptop lid closure, changing keyboard lighting level, sound, usb phone internet connection, printing, things like this. Reading the handbook would take a days to manage, using AI it took one hour.
Yes, I made the initial statement wrong. Install was OK, configuration was easier using AI, not the handbook.So, no AI "help" needed during the install
I'd say it's easier to do on FreeBSD than Linux once you get the hang of it and have a bit more experience with the "FreeBSD-way" of doing things.
Handbook is written fairly generically, it simply cannot provide instructions for all possible hardware combinations people might have. Helping new users is one of the reasons why these forums exist. But I get it, AI can be useful to look things up quickly. Just be wary, it can also get confusing when it mixes up Linux and FreeBSD solutions. It tends to do that.
This is why I made this small description (using AI help) about post install config on Macs: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-setup-notes-for-older-macbook-air-mac-systems.103181/
There's also sysutils/desktop-installer. Honestly, I don't see much point in making the setup any easier than it already is. Anybody who needs that last bit of handholding is probably not even thinking about FreeBSD to begin with. They may not even be considering a mainstream newbie focused Linux distro.
