FreeBSD 15 with KDE and Wayland on a Laptop.
More and more people discover that FreeBSD’s desktop/laptop support keeps improving rapidly. FreeBSD 15 really feels like a breakthrough release.
⁉️With KDE Plasma 6.x, you can leave legacy X11 behind and use Wayland on FreeBSD now, and support for Intel Wi-Fi chips has greatly expanded. Apparently, battery life has improved as well, which is one of the hardest problems to solve for an operating system, especially with the wide variety of hardware combinations in the x86 world.⁉️
forums.freebsd.org/threads/fre…
👾It’s always been my favorite operating system for servers, but with the arrival of pkgbase, massive improvements to the LinuxKPI dri
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More and more people discover that FreeBSD’s desktop/laptop support keeps improving rapidly. FreeBSD 15 really feels like a breakthrough release.
⁉️With KDE Plasma 6.x, you can leave legacy X11 behind and use Wayland on FreeBSD now, and support for Intel Wi-Fi chips has greatly expanded. Apparently, battery life has improved as well, which is one of the hardest problems to solve for an operating system, especially with the wide variety of hardware combinations in the x86 world.⁉️
forums.freebsd.org/threads/fre…
👾It’s always been my favorite operating system for servers, but with the arrival of pkgbase, massive improvements to the LinuxKPI drivers, and the launch of the Laptop Support and Usability Project, it’s become my primary desktop, too.👾
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wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxKPI
github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/p…
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<https://www.ghostbsd.org/>
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<https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve>
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<https://www.ghostbsd.org/>
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