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rl_dane@alpha.polymaths.social

R. L. Dane :Debian:

Should I try a new OS for, er... secretions and oscillations of the diaphragm? ;)

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as400@mas.to

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@rl_dane

If only FreeBSD had properly working wifi and gpu drivers...
I wouldn't look back.

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@as400 @rl_dane Wifi is doable, GPU is hard. And then there's power management and sleep support you probably want, too :-).
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as400@mas.to

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@pavel
@rl_dane

You forgot to add that wifi is doable using Linux :)

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rl_dane@alpha.polymaths.social

R. L. Dane :Debian:

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@as400 @pavel

Depends on the card, of course. I never had problems with wifi on atheros chips, and for the most part, a USB dongle isn't a terrible solution.

Suspend is very hit or miss, and I've had the best luck with #OpenBSD in that regard, but it's still iffy at times.

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as400@mas.to

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@rl_dane
@pavel

I personally have no problem using USB dongle for wifi.
But in case of integrated GPU - there is no choice for me. My Meteor Lake GPU is not supported.

So either you have older hardware and FreeBSD. Or newer hardware and no FreeBSD :) Not a good choice.

It would be great if hardware drivers could be codeveloped and reused by both communities. Linux and *BSD.

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@as400 @rl_dane I have USB-to-DVI dongle, you want one? :-)

I guess even FreeBSD can do VGA graphics, and likely dumb framebuffer should work, too. But you probably want 3D acceleration and that is unfortunately hard.
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