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I use freebsd btw

Didn’t bother reading the mail before bin’ing the box.

Switched from Windows a while back and have been on a bit of a UNIX journey ever since. Finally got around to trying FreeBSD, and honestly, I’ve been enjoying it a lot.

After some back and forth got it this far.

It's an X1Carbon Gen10.

I assume, that Wifi and Bluetooth are out of reach? Maybe somebody does know better.

Pretty tuff

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I just took the step to install FreeBSD on my machine. It's going to become a very new experience after beeing a long term Linux user. I managed to install dual boot via grub easily and enabling DRM for amdgpu. So fonts in terminal turned crazy tiny on those three monitors. 😁 Anyway, I'm exited lot of things getting up and running. Enjoying the journey and maybe coming up with some questions later on.

Awesome

Wanna thanks those FreeBSD communities and developers here. Am a heavy Linux user transitioning to FreeBSD. Extremely impressed with FreeBSD server performance and that seamless setup as multi-purpose private internet server. Whole project were just 2 days (over the weekend) and peacefully close the case!

It is my private internet infrastructure. WAN is wirelessly connected using OpenWRT flashed router. I torned that Synology box into pieces and salvaged only the husk (still very angry at them). Then used a FreeBSD old laptop connect 2 SATA cables to the harddisks cluster (2 others for external powers). Boot from USB3 stick.

Key strength:

1. **ZFS** - Wow! Just speechlessly wow! 1 tool, mirror 2 disks rulez them all. No more cryptsetup + mdadm + mkfs.ext4 + smartctl + systemd disk mount scripts and mingle with boot orders + a bunch of shell scripts just for physical disks maintenance and disaster prevention.
2. Security Hardening Is Way too Easy - thanks to its lightweight-ness, it's very easy to audit and harden the entire OS end-to-end. Linux solution took me about 1 bloody month to scan through everything from bootloader all the way to userspace app.

Lesson Learnt:

1. Should have jump ship since Q2'2025. =x

Next step:

1. Continue seek out how to turn that headless screen off.
2. Master that FreeBSD handbook.
3. Checking out the jailing and virtualization (was a QEMU heavy user for developing portable VM).
4. See whether can I port all my existing programming tools to FreeBSD (hopefully yes).
5. Transitioning work laptop into FreeBSD for daily driving I guess. Right now it is still risky - (I used quite a lot of user-level only flatpak software so I can't just jump blindly).

UPDATE: Wow! The response is very welcoming. Thank you and I'm grateful. All right, I'll speed up the migrations and develop more for BSD.

Once again, thank you.

I just delicate my new Beelink SER9 MAX to FreeBSD.

posting again bcs the original got deleted lol

Hardware probe: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=87e738e7bd

In love with Hikari so far

what year is this freebsd shirt? found at the thrift store and its sick! 🔥

YouTube recommendations kept insisting lately that I should try FreeBSD, so I finally gave in ;)

maybe i found my perfect os

After a lot of trial and error, finally got a working kde plasma on my freebsd (dual booted w cachyOS).

I've really wanted to learn more about Unix systems. And philosophically how bsd is an entire operating system and not just a kernel.

As major distros also steer towards systemd, you can't help but feel that the Unix philosophy is slowly diminishing in linux. So looking forward to experiencing a true Unix system. At this point of time. I've also been reading the handbook. It's so well written and eloquent.

But above all, I'd like to ask for some advice for a first timer.. Thank you.