FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop

bombcar

Ten minutes a day is a daily driver? Short commute!

866-RON-0-FEZ

Oh my god this lady should be running a pet shop. She's had this role since 2005 and is only now dogfooding the software for 10 minutes a day? Stunning and brave. Imagine Linus Torvalds or Theo from OpenBSD using Windows out of convenience. Unthinkable.

dnautics

With ~zero unix experience (I was moving from BeOS), I ran FreeBSD full time as a chemistry grad student from 2003-2009, on a Dell XPS, and mostly had no problems. What's changed? (I'm interested in leaving linux and going to FreeBSD)

neko_ranger

how is this not the most embarrassing thing ever?

jcoder

I'll never understand why people think this looks human: What Made This Time Different This time, I didn't just install FreeBSD. I created a system for learning and success. Clear goal: FreeBSD as my daily driver Daily habit: 10 minutes minimum Accountability: post the journey on Linkedin Gee, why not let the agent try FreeBSD for you and do the posting directly

calvinmorrison

whats more embarassing is the shit tier presentation slop. "This time I didnt just install FreeBSD. I create a system for learning and success". Anyone who wrote this has no business with FreeBSD or open source.

dburkland

As soon as I saw the title I immediately knew what the comment section would look like (and rightfully so).

dogcow

As a long time FreeBSD user, the Foundation has really failed to impress me in recent years. I lost faith in them back in 2018 during the "code of conduct" fiasco, when they wasted Foundation funds on a consultant for a code of conduct that nobody really asked for. Haven't donated since -- instead I redirected my donations to the OpenBSD project, which while less practical in many scenarios, is a technically superior product in my eyes. That said, I am glad to see them focusing their efforts on something useful, like laptop compatibility. Regardless, this is a really dumb post. 10 minutes a day is not "daily driving."

lowbloodsugar

Tried “a daily driver for at least 10 minutes a day”. lol. That’s not the definition of a daily driver. Thats something I really don’t want to do, like pushups.

DeathArrow

Why is she leading the FreeBSD foundation? Can't they find someone etter suited and more technically inclined?

phyzix5761

What a joke. When the Executive Director of your Foundation doesn't even use your product its a red flag.

ksec

I mean I am happy if they kept FreeBSD to be Server focused. I have been using a Mac / Windows and deploying on Linux and FreeBSD, i don't see why both the consumer and the server / enterprise has to have the same OS stack all the time.

polynomial

This is horrifying on so many levels even if you don't already know how the story ends.

AshamedCaptain

Ironically, drm-612-kmod has been pushed to ports a couple days ago (not quarterly yet) so you can now start using FreeBSD with really recent GPUs now from ... let's see ... 2024. This still makes it like the 3rd operating system overall when it comes to hardware support.

jruohonen

Does anyone know about power consumption? That's where Linux shines for laptops (probably nowadays better than Windows). (I have some old laptops, and as someone posted the other day the interesting thing about someone having LLM'ed a 802.11 driver, I'd might give it a go.)

netrap

FreeBSD does not have a desktop installer yet.. the powerpoint alludes to that being a coming feature though.. I think people here should chill out about her not using FreeBSD as the daily driver.. I use FreeBSD daily in my work, but no, I don't on desktop...

binary132

The writing is so on the nose it makes me wonder if Michael is mocking her.

WhyNotHugo

> FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops This sounds like a joke. Imagine if Bill gates said "he's going to try and daily drive Windows", or if Steve Jobs said "he's going to try and daily drive an iPhone". It seems crazy to me that a foundation behind an OS has executives who don't even use that OS.

grigio

I understand the rants, but my main complain about freebsd today for me is the poor wifi firmware support (compared to Linux)

knewter

https://omfreebdy.dba.wtf idk freebsd can be super nice on a laptop