Okay FreeBSD desktop users, red pill me on your experiences. I’m an Arch user who’s considering making the switch mostly because of zfs.
How long does it take to get a usable desktop up-and-running? I have a compatible laptop so I’m not too worried about hardware support.
How is printer support?
How is performance?
Okay FreeBSD desktop users, red pill me on your experiences...
Nathaniel Price
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Xavier Morales
What's your lappy?
Ethan Rogers
Thinkpad x200 tablet
Ayden Hernandez
FreeBSD for Desktop is abetter experience overall than any Linux distro, mostly because of default low latency model. If only FreeBSD had better hardware support I would switch from Debian long time ago. No matter what Linux distro I try, even with low latency kernel patch, no matter how good your hardware is, Desktop GUI starts lag after few days of heavy usage on Linux distros.
Isaiah Myers
>How long does it take to get a usable desktop up-and-running?
Less time than it takes to get Arch set up.
>How is printer support?
It's CUPS, so probably fine.
>How is performance?
Might be slightly worse, but not noticeable.
The biggest downside is no web DRM, so no Netflix.
Dylan Morgan
*hugs*
Henry Johnson
>No Netflix
I don’t use Netflix but i’ve seen this response in similar threads. How does this work exactly? Can you explain it in more detail?
Does that mean gnome will lag less? Cuz I quite like gnome
Henry Myers
How would battery life be on an old thinkpad with FreeBSD? Similar to linux? I can get around 6 hours with arch but I have tlp installed.
Kayden Clark
What's interesting gnome on FreeBSD is the best experience you can get out for GNOME.
Justin Hall
>How does this work exactly? Can you explain it in more detail?
I don't know how it works, but it's basically proprietary code that's only written for browsers running Windows, macOS, and Linux. All you need to know is that it won't work on FreeBSD.
If you follow guides for enabling powerd, it should be similar, maybe a little less because of the ticked kernel.
Jayden Barnes
Are there any other notable websites that won’t work on FreeBSD? Thanks for telling me about powerd too.
Wow that’s neat. I’ll definitely install it if I decide to switch to FreeBSD.
Kevin Turner
Nope, literally everything else will work, it's just Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, and maybe a few other paid streaming services.
Lucas Ross
Oh okay. Nothing I use then. Not a big deal to me.
Kayden Gonzalez
Actually, Hulu may work, the EFF only lists Netflix and Spotify: defectivebydesign.org
Ryder Richardson
>mostly because of ZFS
ZFS is better under arch at the moment bro. Just use the arch-zfs repo and the dkms packages. 0.8 even has encryption. If you wanted any of the other benefits FreeBSD is a "easier" operating system with some benefits like devs who actually run their maintained software in production and therefore know whats wrong but a part from that install the archzfs repo.
Eli Powell
Does soulseek work on freebsd
Blake Morgan
Why wouldn't it?
Isaiah Rodriguez
Like, is there a working client is what i’m asking
Ryder Thompson
>installer is pretty nice, although barebones, reminds me of debian text based install
>zfs is neat, really liked that
>pain in the ass to install and run nvidia driver (had a 750 Ti at the time), until i found some obscure snippet to put in /boot/loader.conf that was different from in the handbook
>started to install my programs I use
>some not available as packages, have to use ports
>some ports simply fail to compile, either due to linuxisms or just shitty maintainers of the freebsd port
>suffer using alternatives for a week or so
>give up and install literally any Linux distribution
It's also worth mentioning that they have a shitty code of conduct associated with the FreeBSD project, but that's more Jow Forums than Jow Forums.
The irony is Netflix uses FreeBSD on their servers, but you can't watch it on FreeBSD desktops.
Asher Wood
freebsd is going to move to zfsonlinux
Eli Gonzalez
I run both FreeBSD and Arch (but mainly boot into FreeBSD these days).
>How long does it take to get a usable desktop up-and-running?
It's easier than Arch.
>How is printer support?
With Gnome installed all my printers worked as expected.
>How is performance?
ZFS has some overhead, but wouldn't say perf is bad.
Noah Garcia
Neat thing is that besides gnome3 metapackage, there's gnome3-lite for the bare shell. On linuxes usually uninstalling one gnome package that you don't want uninstalls the whole desktop that's tied tight with dependencies.
It has no soulseek client in ports, I don't know why. Back when I used it, I used official client through wine.