5 hours ago
vermaden's contributions in making FreeBSD accessible to others is invaluable, as a Google search regarding some aspect of FreeBSD often includes results referencing his blog.
Wayland on FreeBSD does work; combining it with KDE Plasma is quite usable.
FreeBSD is great.
5 hours ago
I read this and I feel mostly wonder. About a lot of things.
But hey - I appreciate someone promoting FreeBSD for desktop and doing stuff just because he can. Good for him!
5 hours ago
Long time FreeBSD user on and off, currently running 16-CURRENT on my desktop for GPU support. But fwget is a new one on me. I’m gonna try it later and see what it does for me.
FreeBSD is really hard to keep up with the changes - i don’t know of a good source to keep up with what is considered the right way to do things anymore. Anyone know a good source? Linux is much better for blogs.
4 hours ago
FreeBSD, as an OS, does not change that much. It's not hard to keep up. That's why it's such a solid OS. The main web site lists any changes or additions with each release.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/
But you are running 16-CURRENT, which is the development branch not suitable for production or daily use. Is that why you are struggling?
3 hours ago
AFAIK the netflix CDN boxes all run -current (they used to at least), so is the main pfsense release.
-current is definitely ok for production
an hour ago
-current is ok with the caveat that you have to be pretty engaged with the development process, ideally having developers employed (or be one yourself)
I was a committer long ago, these days sticking to latest releases on my boxes
Desktop is a moving target and modern hardware usually requires -current, but I wouldn’t call it “production”
3 hours ago
No not all. I’m only on 16 for RDNA4 support, might go back to 15 once it’s back ported, if I can be bothered.
The command I referenced is not, I guess 16 only. Other examples are the service command just appearing, etcupdate being preferred to mergemaster, whatever the current preferred flavour of port upgrade tool is (poudrire, portmaster, portupgrade, something else(?)).
I also have no idea what is a sane way to do things that Linux does as systemd user services like pipewire, xdg-sessions if I want to share my screen.
2 hours ago
I think for etcupdate etc, you should be able to get that info from /usr/src/UPDATING
For port upgrades, I dunno if it applies to CURRENT, but pkg seems to work?
I usually read the release notes for each release, which keeps me up to date enough.
I dunno about your session question. In X11, you could drop those in .xsession, but Wayland is a just a protocol, so who knows.
2 hours ago
Yeah pkg is fine if you’re using prebuilt packages. I don’t think it builds ports with custom configs for you from /usr/ports. Or maybe it does now and I missed that too.
I much prefer sway as my desktop, but each to their own.