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Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Anyone tried FreeBSD? Linux is starting to lose that hipster allure.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

the real l33t h4x0rz use TempleOS

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

It's what my router runs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I have used Freebsd for sometime on my desktop back in 2021. For the most part I had a good experience except that I couldn't figure out how to connect earphones/mic on the ports on my PC case. I had to plug it directly to my motherboard for Freebsd to detect them. I used an Nvidia card at that time and it also worked very nicely although it had much older drivers than Linux.

I ended up switching back to linux because of 2 reasons -

  1. I have a few BTRFS drives that I use regularly and couldn't afford to buy some new ones for Freebsd at that time.

  2. I couldn't play games using steam proton. I don't know the situation these days, but I'll surely check it out If it has improved since then.

You should give Freebsd a try, you might like it.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 7 months ago

Yup, I love it, but it's not great as a desktop...

OpenBSD is ironically a pretty good desktop though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

TIL that FreeBSD is an OS and not just another Distro.