yup I daily drove FreeBSD for a week. I loved it, I really did. but the wifi was just…I couldn’t do it anymore. I had two scripts written specifically for it. one that would easily connect me and another that was a “watchdog” that would monitor when the connection dropped and then reconnect me. it would drop pretty much every 15 to 30 minutes. and when it was connected it was slooooooow. so I just went back to Linux. Also since I’m a web dev a couple tools I use just weren’t available on FreeBSD so I had to install a very small debian vm and tunnel into that to simply run builds and deploy them. that was also a pain to figure out and not have wiped after every reboot.
I might just slap it on my extra 256gb ssd and keep it as a “hobby os” and just keep daily driving linux.
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Relieved in FreeBSD
eventually relieved in FreeBSD once the wifi decides to not drop and maintain a decent connection
If you need wifi on BSD you’re usually boned. Or at least very slow.
yup I daily drove FreeBSD for a week. I loved it, I really did. but the wifi was just…I couldn’t do it anymore. I had two scripts written specifically for it. one that would easily connect me and another that was a “watchdog” that would monitor when the connection dropped and then reconnect me. it would drop pretty much every 15 to 30 minutes. and when it was connected it was slooooooow. so I just went back to Linux. Also since I’m a web dev a couple tools I use just weren’t available on FreeBSD so I had to install a very small debian vm and tunnel into that to simply run builds and deploy them. that was also a pain to figure out and not have wiped after every reboot.
I might just slap it on my extra 256gb ssd and keep it as a “hobby os” and just keep daily driving linux.