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Comment by hillbillyjack

I doubt he is, it has been hard to get FreeBSD working on any laptop that isn't specifically supported by someone.

You can see many non-working things here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ from no sound to can't boot. Power management is also notoriously bad so you need your laptop to be plugged in.

It is reminiscent of Linux a few years ago when everyone with brand new laptops tried to install it.

FreeBSD is still fine on desktop systems and even works quite well for a desktop in some cases, but Linux is just so big at this point that it supports more things, while FreeBSD has always seemed more server oriented.

parent hillbillyjack 13 years ago

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