I've been using FreeBSD for about 2 weeks as a test on my second desktop and I'm having a great time. Everything works. And it's far better than the last time I used Linux, back in 2012. The only issue so far is that if you want to use Proton and not just Wine, it gets a bit complicated, 'cause you need to use Linuxulator. Other than that, it's been great.
A lot less feasible than Linux.
Linux has come a LONG way in the last 13 years.
Regardless of the plausibility of FreeBSD being suddenly and widely adopted in the Desktop space and its viability for many, I will always prefer FreeBSD's development and deployment over Linux. It delivers a kernel, device drivers, the userland utilities, and documentation, as opposed to Linux only delivering a kernel and drivers. It's genuinely a better method of development IMO, as FreeBSD delivers a complete operating system on one stable base that can easily be developed & packaged for and so effectively reduces fragmentation issues, and to top it all off it's all done with simple instructions on how to download & install for new users.
The kernel might have. After reading this thread, I'm not so sure about the rest.
Not even their worst one Nicco made.
You know freebsd just uses things ported over from Linux for the most part? Uses desktops, and applications built around Linux, basically except the kernel itself, the the things tied into it, and the userland.
I don't know if you meant it but great post. GNOME is an exercise in total fucking stupidity. The GNOME devs always choose the worst outcome in every decision they make. They're either evil and/or stupid, but they have to be at least one.
That won't affect Cinnamon, right?
I think sooner or later the developers of other GTK desktops are gonna have to put their big boy pants on and disavow the RH GTK completely. Probably should've happened already. There's too much retardation on that side of Linux and it already causes issues with the sane desktops and programs.
Global Hotkeys not working on OBS like it does on X11 out of the box is intended IIRC, it's not considered to be a regression and so it won't ever be fixed. Whenever you see something like this on Wayland you should just assume it's yet another vital security feature that's super important, because that's always what it is. - But tbf unless I am mistaken there actually is a readymade solution for this called Global Shortcuts. It's a standardized API that's part of the XDG Desktop Portal project intended for applications to be able to request and use global shortcuts on Wayland. It works by opening up a permissive "portal" to said application which can then be used for hotkeys.
Also, yes Nicco is a faggot, ever since I saw him wear a feminist shirt I knew he was a creep because men who feel the need to grandstand abt that, esp by wearing some dumb Etsy shirt always are. That's why I was surprised he didn't call PewDiePie Alt-Right in his video covering him. I guess not getting dislike bombed matters more to him than calling out literal nathzees, for shame. I also get the impression that he is not a major contributor to KDE. He mostly just plays one on TV as an angle to get clicks. - I had no idea he defended minors watching porn, why is he interested in them doing that? None of this noncery surprises me, but good catch for sure.
GNOME is fucking garbage and this is a perfect example of their Microsoft-like attempt to create a monopoly and force it down everyone's throats.
People say this "GNOME was designed for tablets", but it's actually just as bad on tablets.
It's not like the qt based desktops aren't also slowly moving over to wayland. KDE is obviously heading it. But lxqt is starting the move itself. Last I heard it's still considered experimental though.
Its still experimental but its past the alpha stage that Xfce and Mate are currently stuck in.
Ahh, the good old days, when the women at tech conferences were, you know, women.
Yeah. I tried their wayland version right after they released it. It was still very much alpha at that point. Even so overall things did seem to work. For sure not everything, and I wouldn't have been happy actually using it at that point. I was going in knowing it wasn't close to ready yet. So I wasn't surprised when I ran into some issues, and weird behavior with certain things.
Sad to say, that (top 0.001% Turkish woman) cut herself off from the future of the human race by choosing to not have children while she still could. Grandparent (and horny BSD enthusiasts everywhere) cry
No glibc, gnu utils and gcc is a win in my opinion.
Couldn't tell you, haven't use Linux properly since 2012. And it's my first time using FreeBSD.
Don't think too hard about it, it's just a poor attempt at a joke. I should've added a new line before it.
Late reply, but as someone working a devops adjacent job, NixOS seemed like such a cool thing to sink my teeth into, and I reckoned it would look great on my resume as well. Then the tranny takeover happened, which lead to near continuous drama in the community, including the creator of NixOS himself getting booted from the project, and it ended completely deflating any motivation I had. On one hand I feel like I'm being petty and a couple of terminally online trannies shouldn't affect me, but on the other hand the sheer amount of drama I keep reading about and the numerous contributors quitting the project or getting bullied off it really just makes me want to not engage with it at all. Shit sucks manLast time I used NixOS I went through all the trouble to set up all my stuff and learn the language, I had a git and everything. Nix was the only distro I hopped to that wasn't objectively worse than what I already used, and now that I know more, I think it could be better. Problem is I have my setup scripts already written for Arch, and if I needed to, I could very easily replicate a system too. I never really need to do that though; I prefer to have each computer be totally different. It just felt tedious having to rewrite it all for Nix and I ended up ditching before I finished it. Changing your flow is really annoying, and I suspect that is the reason many Linux nerds don't bother with NixOS. It's just too different. Kind of a shame tbh.
EDIT: I decided to finally try daily driving it again due to your post and I was met with this bullshit on the front page:
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And the favicon too... It's all so tiresome. At least they didn't use the tranny / brown colors & the autism awareness colors do fit the distro.
