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Nothing "against" FreeBSD, but I've never been able to really use it as a desktop OS.

Don't get me wrong: ports is pretty cool and jails are cool, but every time I've tried running FreeBSD on a laptop I end up spending a day chasing problems with drivers or getting things like brightness or volume controls working. Basically, FreeBSD on laptops (as of the last time I tried it about two years ago) feels like Linux on laptops about fifteen years ago. Linux on laptops nowadays generally works out of the box, at least with AMD stuff. I didn't have much issue getting NixOS working on my current laptop, but I am not sure that would be the case with FreeBSD, even still.

That said, FreeBSD on servers is pretty sweet. Very stable, and ports is pretty awesome. I ran FreeBSD on a server for about a year.



Well, take the corporate and user interest which Linux sees into account. FreeBSD is a niche desktop OS. We can’t expect everything to work. The easiest way is for me and you to start contributing and things might change for the better.


I don’t disagree with that, but I don’t see why this matters to the end user.




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