Making FreeBSD my primary operating system

bda65 said:
It's what i've made before using only FreeBSD. Arch Linux as main OS and FreeBSD as secondary.
Or you can use a VM. In full screen, i'ts great for learning.
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Something to think about, but I think that if I've put this much work into it, then I'm probably past the point of wanting to play with a VM.
 
jardows said:
pkg lock packagename
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Would this prevent my nvidia driver, which I installed via pkg, from being corrupted as the above poster described? I've seen other people describe this happening to them, and I want to make sure I understand this before I take the big plunge.
 
I feel this thread is incomplete without mentioning boot environments and snapshots. Both of which can be used to mitigate a loss of applications during an update or otherwise. I, like others, have had the experience of an app being removed during an upgrade. If the app was critical, I just rolled back or switched back to the prior snapshot or boot environment.

Cedric62, if you are pressed for additional computing resources, I agree with others that a VM is probably best for starting out. Believe me, I want you to take the plug but not if it will result in a loss (whether of data, time or enthusiasm). I was fortunate enough to be able to get another physical machine and dedicate it to FreeBSD -- it's my daily driver and Windows is a backup for when things don't work in FreeBSD.
 
bda65 said:
See pkg lock.
Or look carefully what packages are upgraded / removed before typing Y.
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Ya - when MY system was trashed there were north of "300" packages (pkg) all being simultaneously updated all at once.

I guess I should have said "N" then huh?

There is a 100% chance your going to get rained on some time !
 
Cedric62 said:
Would this prevent my nvidia driver, which I installed via pkg, from being corrupted as the above poster described? I've seen other people describe this happening to them, and I want to make sure I understand this before I take the big plunge.
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You will need to pkg lock MORE than a single pkg on your FreeBSD installation. You will need to track these all down - it's just a hand full, so not too many. I did not do that in my case and that (later) resulted in the loss of my working NVIDIA driver.

The hope, of course, is that when a brand new NVIDIA driver is downloaded and installed on to your system will still work. But ... well... that's not 100%. I actually run a REALLY common NVIDIA card: Geforce RTX 4080 -- and that stopped working. I quickly switched my FreeBSD system from using the NVIDIA driver to being a server (as I wrote - above) and now I am not as vulnerable to FreeBSD NVIDIA graphic driver loss.

You can read the details here (FreeBSD forums - LINK): URGENT - NVIDIA - REL15.0: 580.119.02_1 of nvidia driver/drm61/kmod - ARE KNOWN BROKEN
 
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