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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by petepete on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:29AM (#22853837)
It comes down to the hardware you choose.

I'm using a 7th Gen Lenovo X1 Carbon. When I got it everything worked out of the box with Fedora.

Without coming pre-installed, I don't see how it can be readier.

Of course if you buy a machine with exotic hardware (cough Broadcom) then it'll be a pain.

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by GordonS on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:21AM (#22855182)
You say "exotic hardware", but Broadcom hardware (e.g. NICs) are very common.
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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by pjmlp on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:59AM (#22863377)
Well, my travel netbook came with Ubuntu pre-installed, then I was left without wlan during 2 months until all bugs fixes on the open source driver that replaced the "bad" working proprietary blob were sorted out.

And to this day, the OpenGL and video hardware decoding capabilities are castrated by the open source version of the AMD driver, that did not considered worthwhile to support Brazos APUs to the same level that fxglr had.

So much for coming pre-installed.

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by RMPR on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:59AM (#22854203)
> I'm using a 7th Gen Lenovo X1 Carbon. When I got it everything worked out of the box with Fedora

Even the fingerprint sensor? Using a X1 Yoga here, had trouble with it.

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux by petepete on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:16PM (#22911926)
Sorry I only just saw this response. The fingerprint reader worked with the latest firmware, installed automatically via fwupdmgr.

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/com.synaptics.prometheus.firm...

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