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Now I'm tempted to try FreeBSD.
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Checking the HCL before hardware purchases is definitely advisable.
LOL! The future ladies and gentlemen. The future.
To be fair, I have a keyboard that won't wake MacOS from sleep, and the rear USB ports on my Fedora desktop are kind of wonky.
I'm interested in it as a baremetal server.
Although, I haven't actually gotten to install it on anything due to video problems with the release ISO. I'm going to checkout the latest release, and see if the problem has been fixed.
The got tired of fixing all the Linux specific crap that Linux-centric DEs bring with them. This should have been done years ago, in my opinion.
A little over a decade ago, I used to run FreeBSD as a desktop. FreeBSD then DesktopBSD. I liked it, but I got tired of hours of compile time with the Duron proc I had at the time.
Oh, dear lord. He better not get hit by a bus, or start dating.
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I've been scarred by having to take special precautions when updating Linux kernels and running the Nvidia blob, so I'm not particularly fond of it. Of course, AMD's former proprietary driver wasn't great either, but it didn't seem as bad as the Nvidia driver.
Are FreeBSD updates pretty smooth with using the Nvidia blob? It doesn't leave you with a broken system if the Nvidia driver isn't uninstalled first does it?
I'm not particularly up on the status of FreeBSD graphics card support, and most of my information comes from bits I've picked up doing TrueOS research. Here is what I know:
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I've been pretty happy running Fedora on my notebooks and desktops for the most part. Nvidia hardware can be problematic due to the binary blob needed to really support the hardware, and Fedora being against non-FOSS drivers.
I should mention Korona Linux (https://kororaproject.org/about), a Fedora Remix, which includes a tool to install 3rd-party drivers, like the Nividia blob, Fedora won't ship.