FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience

Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by toomanyducks on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:12PM (#26495598)

> FreeBSD NVIDIA desktop. Any links to guides/docs? My GPU is really the one reason I haven't yet at the very least tried FreeBSD on my desktop.

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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by my123 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:36PM (#26495870)

The Nvidia binary driver is provided for FreeBSD too.

Guide at http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/460.56/... and driver at https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/170806/en... for the currently latest one.

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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by ashafer on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:08PM (#26496186)

I am biased but FreBSD is very well supported on NVIDIA, so I wouldn't let it hold you back from trying it out. I think you could load NomadBSD on a usb and have NVIDIA drivers set up without any real trouble.

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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by lmm on Thursday March 18, 2021 @01:23AM (#26499888)

What do you need a guide for? You install the nvidia driver through the normal package manager and it works, same as on Linux.

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