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[AI summary] The article details the author's experience of setting up a FreeBSD desktop environment, highlighting the challenges faced and the eventual success. The author spent significant time configuring hardware, installing packages, and troubleshooting issues such as touchpad responsiveness, driver compatibility, and power management. While the process was complex and time-consuming, the author concludes that FreeBSD is capable of being a viable desktop operating system, especially with the support of the FreeBSD Foundation and community efforts to document laptop compatibility. The article also reflects on the broader implications of using FreeBSD for desktop use, emphasizing the need for more developers to adopt and test laptops for this purpose.
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| | www.lilysthings.org

[AI summary] An author shares their experience of successfully setting up and daily driving FreeBSD as a desktop OS using a ThinkPad, overcoming challenges like graphics drivers and Wi-Fi issues via a virtual machine workaround.
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[AI summary] The author reviews their experience using FreeBSD as a daily driver operating system, highlighting its performance, installation process, and comparison with other OSes like Void Linux and OpenBSD.
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| | zzamboni.org

I am not just a Linux enthusiast, I also happen to use Windows quite often. In fact, Windows is my primary desktop from which I connect to all the other boxes and do my work on. During the years of Windows usage, I have accumulated a list of must-have Windows programs that I wouldn't be able to work without. Some of them are commercial, some are freeware, but that doesn't matter.
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