Happily using FreeBSD as Daily Driver ❤️

freezr

freezr

I believe that now is more than 6 months that I have been using FreeBSD (Desktop) as daily driver at $WORK but also at $HOME for my personal business, and I am extremely happy and satisfied!

I still have Linux on my small laptop (mainly because the hardware doesn't play nicely with any BSD) but I am fine with it, even though my Linux distro doesn't have systemd. 😂

My set up would be perfect if I could install FreeBSD on my Odroid-HC4, I know I might install OpenBSD but the lack of any reliable filesystem doesn't make me feel comfortable with the idea...
 
It's always good to hear successes (engineers usually only hear failures), but wait until you've been using it as a daily driver to 5 years and someone posts about 6 months.
It will make smile "Yeah that was me once".
 
freezr said:
I still have Linux on my small laptop (mainly because the hardware doesn't play nicely with any BSD) but I am fine with it,
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Share what is missing, someone may have a suggestion for you to overcome any barriers. There are plenty of geniuses here and they all share the same enthusiasm for FreeBSD and are more than wiling to help anyone sort out any problem.
 
freezr said:
I believe that now is more than 6 months that I have been using FreeBSD (Desktop) as daily driver at $WORK but also at $HOME for my personal business, and I am extremely happy and satisfied!

I still have Linux on my small laptop (mainly because the hardware doesn't play nicely with any BSD) but I am fine with it, even though my Linux distro doesn't have systemd. 😂

My set up would be perfect if I could install FreeBSD on my Odroid-HC4, I know I might install OpenBSD but the lack of any reliable filesystem doesn't make me feel comfortable with the idea...
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FreeBSD & OpenBSD & NetBSD have different versions of UFS. Filesystems are all reliable...
 
I'm also a recent FreeBSD convert, since the 15 alphas, and as the main OS a bit after release.
Due to flacky support of an wiskey lake laptop I've only migrated my main desktop. The laptop remains on Alpine/Artix.
 
fahrenheit said:
I'm also a recent FreeBSD convert, since the 15 alphas, and as the main OS a bit after release.
Due to flacky support of an wiskey lake laptop I've only migrated my main desktop. The laptop remains on Alpine/Artix.
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The trick with FreeBSD is to select laptops which have the best FreeBSD support.

I think ThinkPads are most popular among FreeBSD users.
 
Alain De Vos said:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops
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This shows
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graphics/drm-fbsd13-kmod for my ThinkPad W520.

I don't even know what that is. I installed drm-kmod which seems to work OK. Should I install drm-fbsd13-kmod although that sounds as if it is specifically for release 13.0.
 
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