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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 03:53:50 JST feld
   Can someone suggest a laptop with pretty much all functionality supported (webcam, etc) that runs well with FreeBSD? Doesn't need to be latest 2025 model, but shouldn't be ancient
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:00:24 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @feld I've heard and said that freebsd is like linux from 10 years ago in terms of hw support
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:07:49 JST feld

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     @mischievoustomato it's not that bad, it's just the latest greatest wifi probably won't work and maybe the latest GPU could have problems but these days the GPU support is basically imported from Linux so it's not a big deal
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:10:59 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @feld is there a live usb of a bsd to try out he support? i remember hellosystem but ehhh
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     Sir l33tname (l33tname@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:14:38 JST Sir l33tname

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     @feld dell xps work well with linux but no idea if that translates to freebsd

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:14:38 JST feld

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     @l33tname that reminds me Dell is actually shipping FreeBSD on some thin clients so they probably have great support
     
     https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dell-ThinOS-CASE-STUDY.pdf
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:16:23 JST feld

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     @mischievoustomato Probably this is closest
     
     https://nomadbsd.org
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:18:07 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @feld I'll test it out later. I wanted ro play with freebsd but i do too many things so I'm stuck on linux
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     not Evander Sinque (filis@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 04:37:04 JST not Evander Sinque

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     @feld what's with fairly recent thinkpads, like a T490?

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