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?

DrJuanNadie

DrJuanNadie

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.
 
Do you use FreeBSD on metal as your daily driver?
Yes, I do. FreeBSD only since June 2024.
Which version?
I will remain on 14.3 because 15.0 is unusable on my laptop because of a nvme regression introduced in the 15.0 cycle.
What DE or WM do you use?
My DE is CDE.
Do you run any other OS alongside or virtually? Which one(s)? Why do you need the other OS(s)?
I have 3 VMs, also managed by Virtualbox: W10 (that just sits there, I power the VM on just for Windows Update every once in a while), PopOS (just to test COSMIC) and FreeBSD 15.0 .
Explain anything else you want about your system.
Nothing fancy, it's just a laptop that I use with an external monitor and wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse. Sometimes I plug in a pair of USB Sennheiser headphones.
 
DrJuanNadie said:
Sennheiser audio devices, in my experience, seem to last forever.
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I use the ones with optional sound suppression, with cables. These are becoming brittle with time. Other stuff like the ear pads can be easily replaced with spares from the net. Sound quality is great. Maybe, after 20 years of service, they can be allowed to fail.
 
Yes, I use it at both home, and work, where I ssh into my FreeBSD machine there. The one at work runs 14.3, at home, 15.0. I have two that I use at home, one running dwm and the other openbox. I have a couple of Windows VMs, 1 10, 1 11 that I rarely need for work and I have a laptop with a few versions of Linux, plus FreeBSD, that I use for various stuff--such as if I have to use zoom, no mike or camera on my main workstations.
 
Although I daily drive macOS; because the filesystem hierarchy is so well laid out and navigable on FreeBSD i'd recommend a WM + your own tweaks. Configuration of the system is pretty easy because of that. My WM of choice would be Qtile or XMonad because it's all in Python/Haskell - easy to learn, read, and configure without much of a barrier to the user. It takes less time to understand Python than Haskell; pick your poison.
 
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