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This is nice. Couple of days ago I published 80 pages work describing my experience installing FreeBSD on Lenovo Ideapad 3 Gaming laptop and making it to work. The article is in Russian, but I think it can be easily read through Google Translate, here's the link: https://habr-com.translate.goog/en/post/683702/?_x_tr_sl=ru&...

My experience was pretty similar to that of the owner of Framework laptop, except some extra topics: headless NVIDIA GPU, Touchpad issues, bootloader hangs.

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I read your article (the English translation). Very nice work. I did have a question, more about the translation, since I don't know any Russian (besides a couple of simple words).

What is meant by: "many fryukhovovod and linukhovod"? How does that translate to English?

Ahaha... Poor Google.

"Фрюховод", which Google translated as "fryukhovod", means a guy who raises and pets FreeBSD systems. Like cattleman is a man who raises and breeds cattle. It's gentle form. Same way "линуховод" (linukhovod) is a guy who raises Linux systems. Both are well-known jargon words circulating in sysadmin/programming community. :-)

So, the whole phrase your are referring to, can be translated as: "so, many FreeBSD and Linux adepts advise AMD GPU as an alternative".

haha...I thought it could be something like that. Seeing "linukhovod" made me think it was something linux related. I guess breeding and raising linux/bsd systems is kind of what sysadmins do.

Thanks for the response.

Exactly! :)

Does anybody know any service or a decent way to convert Google Translate pages to some editable format ? I would like to save that translation just in case I could find time to polish and publish English version.

Did you really write all of those pages by hand?? It appears incredibly comprehensive. Did you write it just for fun?

Yes, I wrote it just for fun. It was a kind of challenge for me, both resolving issues and describing them in detail to let new people in town learn how issues can be resolved. Last time I wrote anything that long was my diploma thesis 20+ years go. :-) This work took me nearly four months to accomplish.

Cool. Let us know if you write one about NetBSD :)

Sure. ;)

It was a really interesting read, we need more long form guides like this - it takes a lot of work but this is the kind of resource I would love to read getting setup.

Thanks. I consider describing my experience using CADs on FreeBSD (KiCAD, FreeCAD), as this is my work at the moment. Though, this won't differ much from using same on Linux. :)

I'll definitely come back to this if I ever install FreeBSD. I found one small issue:

    -rwxr-sr-x  1 games  games  1713664 Jul  9 17:01 /usr/local/share/nethack33/nethack33* 
    -rwxr-sr-x  1 games  games    19744 Jul  9 17:01 /usr/local/share/nethack33/recover*

Here it's actually the SGID attribute that is set, not SUID.

Yes, of course. Fixed. Thanks for noticing.

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