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- dzogchenSo, is there a laptop that has good support for FreeBSD support out of the box?My requirements are: suspend/resume, being able to drive a 5K monitor over USB-C, wifi.I found https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops but I don't know how up-to-date it is.
- walterbellFreeBSD status on Apple Silicon, https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon
- le-mark> It was 65 quid with about a fiver in postage and there are a ton of them.I’ve bought a few of this vintage (7490’s specifically) and they are plentiful, cheap, and perfectly useable. I put Ubuntu on them, works great.
- hopppIm about to buy a used thinkpad. Guess what I install on it .. yeah if the wifi driver is working well Im all in
- mikeceI'm curious why Apple doesn't support this effort: they have done a lot of the work and it won't exactly harm their market share.
- reactordevYessssssss!!! I would love to help out in any way I can. I’m no good at kernels and stuff but I’m a Linux/unix man and I know graphics.I would love to see a FreeBSD Workstation edition akin to like Fedora or Ubuntu where things just work (mostly).Wayland took too long. We’re still stuck on Gtk. KDE Plasma team is making moves. I just want a nice, BSD, desktop experience without all the enshitification of copilot or Apple knowing what’s best for me.
- zenlotI have Lenovo W530 from around 2012 or so. It has Nvidia K1000M card, full of RAM, i7. I kept upgrading it over the years and used Windows.I have decided to get back to FreeBSD, I used it as desktop 2002-2009 or so.Downloaded 15.0, start install, wifi driver works perfectly, out of the box. Promising start, never seen before with FreeBSD.Installed. Next, lets go to setup, graphics and Wayland. And here we started again, same story, hundred magic params to add, nvidia drivers doesn't work properly, install older version, is incompatible with Wayland etc. Need to go back to Xorg, another set of problems.Ok, if I spent another 8 hours and asked for help in forums as it was 20+ years ago, I could have probably made it work. Until the next issue showed up.So I decide to drop it, download CachyOS. Start installer. It detects K1000M, installs old version of Nvidia drivers, KDE, sorts out all compatibility issues, everything just flies, flawlessly. As never before, not even Ubuntu or Fedora.CachyOS guys, thank you, you made an incredible work on getting it all to this state. Absolutely great.Now don't get me wrong, I love FreeBSD, used it as my main driver for years in early 2000s, started my career with it and it has sweet spot in my heart, forever. It's just that laptop support is not there, still terrible, as it was 20 years ago. PS last laptop I used it successfully on, was Sony Vaio VGN-FS550 from 2005!
- styanax(random anecdote) My first and last experience with FreeBSD laptop was trying to use 3.x (!) on a Dell Inspiron 3500 (PII-350 maybe?), no sound modules were precompiled or included or whatever. Took about 3 days for `make world` to finally finish rebuilding... and then sound still not work. Red Hat 6.x "just worked" in all regards.