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For a "common" use (office work and gaming) FreeBSD really do not give you the feeling it is fighting against you like sometimes Linux distros do, at least for me. It is like the old AmigaDOS, were things were rough, but was straightforward to work with.
Really, Linux has the habit to make simple things harder than is needed.
FreeBSD keeps simple things simple: you have to use the shell a lot, but the overall system is a lot easy to understand and handle. -
...means that while the base system is stable (= predictable, not bug free), the applications from ports are usually updated to the latest stable version.
On Linux you play between the extremes of Debian (where everything is old), Arch (where everything is new and breaks), and Fedora is more or less a sweet spot but you have all the Red Hat extra glued in, that you could or could not like, like have to deal with Wayland that has still issues with some soft. -
If your hardware is supported, I find the BSDs a better sweet spot for desktop use, without need the extra layers, repos, utility that fills Linux.
The ports are usually well updated and are part of Freebsd itself, both if you run the binary or compile them.
Compiling if needed is a lot painless in comparison of what you have on some linux distros.
At difference of linux distros, the BSD systems split the base system from applications... -
Under Freebsd you haven't to deal with some shortcomings of various linux distros where if you haven't stuff in your repository, you have to rely on extra solutions that adds their layer on complexity, aka Flatpak, Snap, extra repos, expecially if you use a Debian.
Fedora based have less troubles but you have to deal with Red Hat, that alone is a minus for me... :P
On Arch/Gentoo you have stuff updated but you have to work on them more than set up Freebsd... -
Eh, I do not expect FreeBSD to get the best gaming platform ever, but the overall experience isn't so disastrous as some comments around would make think, and has edge to be used for a desktop over linux if you are comfortable with the shell, and this is the big factor.
There are need a lot of progresses to let some games running fine enough to get playable, but it works and I could hope in future improvements.
I didn't tried yet Wine for time issues. -
These tests however shows a "reassuring" thing.
The real weakness in the compatibility layer seems lie mostly in the graphic libraries. I had met two cases where the program crashes, one is Gladius and the other I'm going to write about another time, and for Gladius I think could be tracked again in the graphic part.I think, if FreeBSD will get some improvements with the graphic support, would be fine to run also games without rely on the Wine versions.
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- Legend of Keepers: career of a dungeon master, is deceptively plain 2d game that doesn't sounds intensive to give problems, but it is an Unity game.
And it runs really poorly, you have like 1-2 FPS at best under compatibility layer.
Same as Stellaris, the sound is fine, and also the underlying engine runs without breaking; are the graphic libraries that are too slow to make it unusable.https://store.steampowered.com/app/978520/Legend_of_Keepers_Career_of_a_Dungeon_Manager/
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Tried two games with the Linux port under Ghostbsd.
- Gladius: relics of war, caused a crash of the entire session and I got kicked to the login manager...
Great.https://store.steampowered.com/app/489630/Warhammer_40000_Gladius__Relics_of_War/
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I tried to create a #Debian package from #Speedatapublisher but after the dismissing of the Debian repo the
make installinstrunctions are no longer available. Never mind I set a local environmnet.The good news is that #FreeBSD is shipping ** Speedata Publisher** in the third party repo making the perfect solution to work with it, as a designer or to deploy a #Speedata Publisher server.
If you want run publisher into an Opensource ecosystem seamlessly you can do it with FreeBSD.
#runbsd 😈
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@simonemartelli thank you. Strangely, neither Firefox nor Translate Web Pages <https://github.com/FilipePS/Traduzir-paginas-web> (using Google) can perform translation in BSD Cafe Mastodon (the screenshot here), so I used Google in a separate tab. The result:
"I found 16GB of used RAM for €50 and installed it in this old HP laptop from eight years ago.
Then there’s FreeBSD working its magic.
A machine that runs perfectly for any desktop task."
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For the interested, you can read a preprint of our latest #research on the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag here:
https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf
#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity
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Learn more about our security-and-automation focused FreeBSD distribution: BastilleBSD
A FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE distribution with Bastille and Rocinante pre-installed, hardened defaults, and containers ready on first boot.
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The Data Copy That Lies https://lobste.rs/s/riwtej #freebsd
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Does anyone have any recommendations for a good #wiki software to host in a #FreeBSD jail?
There was an article floating around 3-4 months ago about installing one in a FreeBSD jail but Mastodon is so horrendously bad at search, I can't find it.
Bonus if it doesn't use PHP and is lightweight!
Thanks muchly!!
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🔎 You already know which directory takes up a lot of disk space and want to clean out? With 'find' you you can search for files bigger than a specific size.
⚠️ The size option of find is different for #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD, and others.
find / -size +10000000c
💡 In my Linux example I used mebibytes. Yes, that silly name thing where we sometimes use 1000 and sometimes binary 2^10 (1024).
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⚡️ The Data Copy That Lies — Vivian Voss
｢ Every discussion of ZFS eventually produces somebody saying it needs a gigabyte of RAM per terabyte of storage. This is the most durable piece of misinformation in the field, and it comes from a real recommendation that has been detached from its context ｣
