What does this mean - AMD and Intel video is not supported under FreeBSD or it will run in generic mode without any acceleration?
What does this mean - AMD and Intel video is not supported under FreeBSD or it will run in generic mode without any acceleration?
Nvidia is supported in a different way than Intel and AMD. Intel and AMD have opensource parts available, that allow FreeBSD and Linux to build on that driver. Nvidia provides the whole driver for its cards, but it's closed source. It depends on people's opinions, on which they consider better supported.
)Linux will be better to handle this hardware. I have a one year old laptop and bluetooth, wifi, graphic card etc only work after picking patch. I know FreeBSD 13 (maybe 12.2) will work out of the box, but you are not living in the future.
Did you buy the machine with FreeBSD in mind? If so I am assuming that you have checked all the components are compatible with FreeBSD. If so, yes it should work fine.
From my personal experience, I tend to believe that all heavy desktop environments (Gnome 3, KDE 4+) are pretty much broken in little annoying ways regardless of which free operating system you use so you might as well stick with FreeBSD.
However you mentioned that you were a .NET developer. This is kinda like saying that you are a Swift/Cocoa developer. Sure there are projects to make it run on other operating systems but you will encounter less issues professionally using the Windows platform it was intended for. Windows VM in VirtualBox may get round that but it might not provide you with the most optimal experience if you spend a lot of time with it. I notice Mono and dotnetcore currently seem to be the minority compared to full fat .NET Framework
Give it a shot; stick with it for a few weeks and see how you get on. If the "correctness" of FreeBSD outweighs the convenience of Windows, then it wins
I'd say the same holds true in regards to Windows 10 no less. I have my desktop dual boot Windows 10 and FreeBSD/KDE and find myself using FreeBSD more and more these days cause KDE delivers a desktop experience that is much more pleasing in so many ways that it's hard to express. Not to mention the good feeling that it is not constantly trying to do things behind my back that I do not wish or approve of, and that configuration changes I make do not magically return to whatever MS had in mind for those.
From what I read, centOS won't be any different as far as desktop is concerned. If anything, it will be farther behind.
It is only my feeling, but un short, yes.
, lucky for youHi DusTech
for me, always best in bare metal , any operating system
I read that some users have problems with new hardware, but there is a list of compatible laptops
Laptop support, you don't check..bad bad
If you need only the software in Windows, go for it , in FreeBSD are multiple solutions to virtualize some use bhyve. That is the most simple and clean for use (in a plain text file of 10-15 lines you have a full virtual machine) and you have bhyve passthrough. The old VirtualBox, some people says that is a dirty hack, but it works well.
And many more, for me I use emulators/virtualbox-ose-nox11 for Windows7, because bhyve is too slow for me(in RDP session and virtualized ethernet nic is like been behind a 56kbps modem), I think is because of graphics support of bhyve, is too green for now (I don't want 3D acceleration but of course 2D, especially in Windows) and Virtualbox do the job very well, good for everyday use (I don't care about USB passthrough)
That's the magic of all, it's true, there are problems that won't have solution(for now). But the majority have solutions and fixes. And here you have a very good documentation and most of all an excellent community and forums.
