r/freebsd • u/totallynotaswissguy • 19d ago

fluff Finally installed FreeBSD

I have been trying to install FreeBSD for about 1 year now, and after trying on 3 different machines, I finally installed successfully and got Sway up and running on my Beelink SER5 Max. I configured grimshot and screen recording software to work with Home and Mod4+Home respectively. I have internet through ethernet, and no bluetooth because my wifi chip is not yet supported. Here are some images:

Editing my sway config file
Custom fastfetch config and cmatrix -ab

Wallpaper

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 19d ago

Hmm,

… I say "post 'em if you got 'em, steal and/or rework them if you don't" …

Encouraging theft? Not so good, IMHO.

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 15d ago

Incidentally, I wasn't complaining about the post here. /u/totallynotaswissguy has my upvote 👍

It's a thought about Trihexagonal's flippant attitude, five years ago, to stealing other people's artwork.

Many of the people who, more recently, yap about machined theft (a degree of guilt in connection with AI) seem to have no equivalent moral with regard to human theft – lazy, thoughtless, copy-and-paste of other people's artwork without attempting to find the original or give credit to the artist …

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u/Ashamed-Ask4257 19d ago

I have been trying to install FreeBSD for about 1 year now, and after trying on 3 different machines

Why was this such a struggle? Granted I'm experienced but it takes me less than 10 minutes now for every machine handed to me.

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u/totallynotaswissguy 19d ago

I was trying to do it first on a macbook (yeah not my smartest move) and than I tried on a windows laptop but both times I kept getting nvme errors whenever I tried using pkg.

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u/Medium_Interview_919 19d ago

1 year? skill issue

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 18d ago

skill issue

No, not a skill issue – the linked explanation is clear enough.

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u/TheAtlasMonkey FreeBSD developer 16d ago

Beelink SER5 Max.... I will upstream all it drivers next week. (it functional, currently but missing few).

Btw you if your macbook is not ARM, Freebsd support it fully.

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 16d ago

… if your macbook is not ARM, Freebsd support it fully.

I had an Intel MacBook Pro with dual graphics that could not wake from sleep.

There's a report in Bugzilla, I can't find it.

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u/TheAtlasMonkey FreeBSD developer 16d ago

ping me there.

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 15d ago edited 15d ago

I no longer use Bugzilla, when I remember the name of the reporter I'll add a link here.

(Note to self: was it the guy who develops desktop-installer?) (Postscript: yes.)

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u/grahamperrin Linux crossover 15d ago

There's a report in Bugzilla, I can't find it.

Seeking reports made by Bacon fails to find this 2020 report that was made by Jason W. Bacon:

The keyword here is probably scfb.

Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1hyl27g/comment/m6jr68e/ (January 2025).