People who've tried it or no longer use it—how is FreeBSD on the desktop?

I'm really looking to get into FreeBSD, both on server and desktop (out of curiosity and for future jobs—it's a niche and I might have a higher chance of getting a job in it if the FreeBSD job market is small, but I've not searched yet).

I'm already making some rudimentary plans in my mind for the server-side of things, but I'm wondering about the desktop-side of things. Has anyone here given FreeBSD a whirl on a desktop/laptop and can report on how it is? I'm asking on r/linux because r/freebsd feels tiny and I want to get the opinion of maybe some ex-FreeBSDers or FreeBSDers here on what the experience is like (eg. do I have to compile everything like in Gentoo, how hard is it to set up graphics/networking, what WMs/DEs can I use, et cetera, et cetera)

I don't use a lot of software (Discord browser version would be fine, Telegram, emacs, Python/Ruby/Rust, some standard UNIX utilities, GIMP/Inkscape sometimes, and a Windows VM for some things—this last one might be hard?), so I feel like it might be viable. Is it actually viable to use on desktop, or am I fooling myself? It seems quite tantalizing to try it.

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[GUIDE] Achieving Hibernation on Linux
https://diamondbond.neocities.org/linux_hib.html

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go with these share

I want to share with ya bootsplashes I made so here they are:

Veccy Sun Ani-01

Geary Ani-01

I hope some will think of them as useful.

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What is the best linux distro for scientific research?

I am looking for a linux distro that can be a true replacement for windows 10. I don't mind the poor linux graphics, I just need a stable distro with the best applications/packages targeted for scientific community. Can you suggest some?

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Librem 14 Begins Shipping
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-begins-shipping/

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Firefox 90 won't handle FTP sites anymore
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/16/firefox-90-wont-handle-ftp-sites-anymore/

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Use file for Samba User Backend?

I'm trying to build a small SMB honeypot for a Windows Domain network. I've read through the docs a bit and it seems like it's only possible to authenticate a user if they're present in /etc/passwd and their smb password has been set via smbpasswd or pdbedit – but obviously that doesn't scale well.

Anyone knows a way of having a simple file used as user + password backend smbd uses to look up the entries?

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I want to get Minecraft as a flatpak but it doesn't work.

Here is what happened.

apt install flatpak apt

install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

I did all of this then i put in

sudo flatpak install flathub com.mojang.Minecraft

But it came up with this

n...n@penguin:\~$ sudo flatpak install flathub com.mojang.Minecraft

Looking for matches…

ERROR: Unable to load summary from remote flathub: Could not connect: Socket I/O timed out

Does this have to do with my internet

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"History teacher: you have to mention at least 3 generations of your family tree on the test"
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The Arch User Repositories make you enter some crazy pacman command to make an account
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looking for new Linux computer

I am looking for and having trouble finding a computer that is of comparable size to the Intel NUC but would like to use an AMD APU. I see new ones coming along such as 65W Ryzen 7 5700G.

Any suggestion on where to look?

I doubt it matters but will likely be using Manjaro KDE or GNOME.

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Google backs effort to bring Rust to the Linux kernel
https://planetstoryline.com/google-backs-effort-to-bring-rust-to-the-linux-kernel/

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Linux from scratch.

So recently I acquired a job, and I want to fill my out of work hours with a computer hobby somewhat.

I was think maybe as I read and dip my feet into the Linux world like virtual machines and what not, I want to head towards creating it from scratch.
I have various programming software skills so I’m not a stranger to learning languages and using command.

What I want to know is should I use my sea gate to backup my laptop and work towards this big project on my own laptop or should I invest into a new PC/ laptop to begin building it?
Let me know and anything else I should be thinking about.

My personal laptop specs; Dell Inspiron 5770
I7 1.8 GHz
16 fb ram
64 bit
Atm windows 10
Couple keys don’t seem to work
Have had it couple years.

For the build I was thinking of following the LFS book 10.1

What y’all think? Personal experiences, tips, advice, explanation how raspberry Pi might help, back up ideas (want to not lose al my personal stuff) literally anything that can help would be awesome

This idea just came to me in the last 6 hours and the more I read into it the more I want to work towards it.

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Light distribution for a old laptop, which

Hi everyone!
I new on this reddit, I never use Linux before, I have a old laptop with W10 and I search a light distribution for just write, go the web and watch video.

We advise me to install Ubuntu on my laptop, it's a good solution ?

config:

CPU: Intel Celeron U3600 1.20GHz

GPU: Intel HD graphic

RAM: 2GO

DD: 256Go

Thx everyone :)

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Ubuntu 20.04: Switching from GUI to CLI, get a ghost cursor in the GUI

So when switching from CLI windows (idk if that's the proper name, I mean when you ctrl alt f5, etc) and going back to the GUI i get a cursor in the bottom right half of my screen on top of all the windows along with my normal, functional cursor.

Cant seem to find a fix for this? Any ideas (goes away when you restart the display-driver service, but that closes all gui programs, so not really a fix)

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Spotted some Bionic Beaver in the new movie, Nobody
https://imgur.com/a/mOpF0uY

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Linux Deep dive

I'm looking for a learning resource to accelerate my understanding of the inner workings of linux based operating systems. I was previously reccomended trying linux from scratch, but that was a little more involved than i have time for atm. What i would like is something that is audio like a podcast or audiobook that way i can be learning on my long commute ( which can be between 4 and 7 hours each worday)
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

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What are some good apps to try out in WINE ?

I recently installed wine on my linux machine,

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Could someone please suggest me some good apps/games i can try & use in wine.


As of now i only have notepad++ installed

it seems to be working out pretty well so i wish to try even more apps in wine.

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