The FreeBSD handbook, and FreeBSD’s bit-rot resistant documentation, are the primary reasons I use it as a daily driver. I migrated from Linux on the Laptop ~1.5 years ago and my day-to-day has been more calm ever since.
Are you up for sharing which laptop you got? And do you have any advice on the process of choosing one? My needs are pretty basic (no gaming, etc): web browser, sublimetext, command line.
My T14s AMD Gen1 lacks fingerprint scanner support and as of now, AC/AX WiFi drivers are in very alpha stage, so I had to downgrade to 80211n.
Everything else, including AMD GPU acceleration in X.org, works perfectly. I am glad to be able to do some tinkering to have a system working just as I want it to, not like some corporation's investors prefer.
I'm expecting I just have to make the decision at some point, and work through whatever comes up.
It’s a bit of a beast - weighs several pounds - but I can use it in the swimming pool and rain.
Is there anything you didn't even think about that ended up being a problem, or noticeably worse? Or the opposite, something you thought would be an issue but wasn't?
* getting used to the BSD version of utilities. make frequently breaks for me, and last time I used gmake there were still issues.
* random software isn't packaged or just doesn't run/build on *BSDs well.
* lack of support for games. these days, steam games run rather well on linux as long as they don't require anticheats.
* no docker. this is what keeps me on linux, I use it every day for work and I have a server at home running software through docker containers.
For me, OpenBSD is the goto.. for servers. I still stick with debian or arch for my daily drivers.
I don't want zoom anywhere near my FreeBSD box after what they did with that backdoor on macOS. And refused to remove it until apple blacklisted them.
I keep an R620 running Linux that I can ssh into if I need Docker - but I use it a lot less than I expected.