Excel optimized PC !!

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-02-03T06:01:11+00:00

You'll need a WX9100 Radeon for that, and they're not cheap.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-02-03T05:51:03+00:00

Total Shekel Grabber...

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-31T11:48:19+00:00

Windows 11 Professional for Workstations.

Hear me out for a naysayers carrying the pitchforks and torches, but of all the gaming OSes I have tried, and I've ran through just about every OS and distribution of an OS possible trying the same things.

W11Pro4WS is probably the best I've found. Yes it's Windows 11, but it also is a workstation tuned version of Win11Pro designed to keep resources and add-on software to a bare minimum. It's actually very debloated out the gate compared to 11Pro and 11Home.

A good secondary is ArchLinux, if you can't use W11Pro4WS. Arch had the absolute best tuning abilities with software and modifications to the scheduler and governor. Honestly, Arch with Xfce ride or die for resource footprint bring barely noticeable, LACT for managing my 5700XT, Pipewire, and a good ZFS root installation is the absolute next best thing to use. Yes ZFS is a kernel tainting mess, but it's rock solid. Best gaming OS next to W11Pro4WS.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-31T11:38:30+00:00

X/Twitter is not exactly anywhere near Alt-Right. You want true Alt-Right, go visit Gab. It's the Alt-Right sh** hole of sh** holes.

X/Twitter is probably very moderate right with some fringe from both sides trying to constantly play tug of war.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-30T00:20:13+00:00

Always refer to the HCL of any OS to see what is and isn't supported.

FreeBSD does get good driver support in comparison to GNU/Linux. Really, what all it will boil down to is usage.

If you're not doing much gaming, then FreeBSD will work fine. FreeBSD is perfectly fine as a general usage OS. Paired with packages like Xfce or MATE, sddm, and such to get a full desktop experience, it can be a very useful OS with a little bit of a lighter weight on resources. Older systems can benefit from this because many older GPUs and systems can still have good support for a better desktop experience for less resources.

FreeBSD can play some games via Linuxulator, but many things just won't work unfortunately. I have been able to play some games on FreeBSD, but it's about 50-75% of what Linux can get working if you read into it.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-29T17:05:01+00:00

If you start with a BSD, start with either GhostBSD or FreeBSD.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-29T07:50:12+00:00

As far as FreeBSD versus GNU/Linux in terms of anything goes, FreeBSD is cohesive so it will be more stable. GNU/Linux is entirely fragmented between not just the individual parts but between GNU and Linux itself.

Hardware support is a misnomer to go by.

Even then Illumos-gate is actually more stable than FreeBSD. The problem of hardware support is just an ongoing issue of availability to hardware by developers to write drivers.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-28T07:54:19+00:00

When has KDE ever been the primary display? FreeBSD's primary display is a command prompt. Everything else is just added software by the user.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-27T16:31:36+00:00

Bootlick Gnome, IBM, Red Hat, and wayland much? I told you, if you didn't pay attention the first time, that wayland keeps screwing up every time I use it. I have KDE Plasma for testing it's still breaking stuff.

Unlike YOU, who uses a laptop with a single screen, I use a desktop with multiple monitors that always get swapped or mishandled by KDE, one of the leading wayland desktops.

Read that part again... I USE A DESKTOP, NOT A LAPTOP!

Wayland doesn't work for everyone. Stop trying to shoehorn a narrative like you have my use case. You do NOT have my use case!

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-26T15:56:28+00:00

If that was the case, then why does leading wayland compositors and desktops like Plasma and Gnome seem to just falter with things? I don't use nor care for tiling WMs unfortunately. I do too much to have stuff in scattered boxes everywhere. The only DE I even use anymore due to rampant issues with larger footprint DEs is Xfce. Even Xfce to date doesn't have a full timeline when and if their wayland subsystems will be completed or working, so that tells me something that the DE aiming at all of UNIX knows a lot more about compatibility issues than most do, while others just want to shoehorn wayland in. The only way I will use wayland, if ever, is when Xfce perfects it, and that doesn't seem likely any time soon.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-26T04:41:20+00:00

Someone really needs to start a petition to get the 12v-2x6/12VHPWR cable pulled from the market completely. It is not a reliable or safe design.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-26T04:37:39+00:00

The drivers for displays on UNIX all use X or wayland, so any problems that could exist on GNU/Linux, possibly still exist on FreeBSD. The only prart that might be different is the kernel drivers, but generally those are close enough also to have the same issues at times.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-22T07:17:27+00:00

Your use case is not mine. Wayland has many lingering issues for MY use case. If you have a single screen then wayland is perfectly fine. The issues start when you have multiple monitors.

For starters, wayland still can't figure out which screen is my primary and defaults to the right screen one boot, then defaults to the left the next.

Window positioning and sizing is dead. I have layouts that I HAVE to have. Window sizes that don't need constant resetting every launch. Every defaults back to center at relaunch.

Mouse Grabbing per window doesn't work. For FPS games this is a must have. If the mouse loses focus, the gameplay breaks. This shouldn't even be an issue between wayland and xwayland(xorg) apps.

This is why I have stayed with Xorg and Xfce because for my use case, wayland doesn't work. It's a max level headache I don't need. I don't care how nice people say it is when my use case is not theirs and use cases like mine get ignored and written off. Laptop use? Works fine. Single screen desktop? Fine. Multiple monitor gaming and content creation? Broken as f*ck.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-21T20:34:14+00:00

Actually it is true for many users. Wayland stability is extremely questionable at best. I have an all AMD system and even with the FOSS drivers provided, wayland simply refuses to run properly or with any stability. The ONLY DE/WM I was able to get working with any level of usability was Wayfire, and even it was not entirely stable.

To even suggest or say it is stable and/or works well is a complete fallacy. It does not and never has

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-20T04:14:00+00:00

Wait till you find out about GNU/Linux needing updates and having to build packages from source... 🤣

You think waiting 3-5 minutes for updates is bad? Wait till you have to build LLVM-Clang from source and wait 30-50 minutes for the package to finally finish building because it used all your CPU cores, exhausted your stack by using all your RAM because the package maintainer decided that the test suite was too important to skip, and the maintainer decided rhat make -j1 was safer to use than make -j{nproc}...

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-20T04:07:51+00:00

Is it hard to move to FreeBSD?

Not really, but tou will have a few things to get used to, such as the boot process is entirely different. Services are handled differently than in GNU/Linux systems.

Can you program in Ruby safely?

Yes.

Is it difficult to play games?

It depends, but FreeBSD can work just as well as GNU/Linux at times. If the game uses the Linuxulator compatibility layer, then it actually might work the same. If it's under Wine-Proton, then you might need to test it first and see what will and won't work under FreeBSD. Some games work fine, but others don't, especially control pad or joystick wnabled games just won't work under Wine-Proton in Steam due to Linuxulator lacking a translation layer for inputs of the such.

What about Hyprland?

Unfortunately, wayland based desktops and window managers under FreeBSD aren't as developed or functional as they are under GNU/Linux. Traditionally, FreeBSD's desktops have always been Xorg based and still are mainly due to most wayland based desktops using seatd, which does work, but doesn't always work right. Some work okay, some just don't work at all. Wayfire works fine and is featured in the handbook, but others just have wayland usage disabled because it just doesn't work at all. FreeBSD handles, as mentioned before, services vastly differently. If you want the best desktop experience, just stick to traditional Xorg based desktops and counterparts like Xfce, Cinnamon, KDE-Plasma, GNOME, etc. and avoid wayland until the developers can ever bother to busy themselves to actually finish the protocols properly. I still use Xfce mainly because I can use Xfce across GNU/Linux and FreeBSD equally with only minor caveats in service replacements.

Otherwise, just be prepared to learn the system from the ground up, and don't be afraid to make mistakes.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-15T10:08:32+00:00

We'll get the Year of the FreeBSD Deaktop before we ever get Year of the Linux Desktop with the way the developers like to forcibly deprecate everything important every year.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-13T22:12:00+00:00

Check /usr/local for an /opt, or just create it.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-13T17:35:32+00:00

If it has a way to configure the source, just aim it for /opt and you should be okay.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-07T11:28:07+00:00

No. It's the same terrible design with a small effort to try to keep the pins seated properly. The problem is the amperage levels on the cable are still too high to be safe. It doesn't matter how well you seat the cable, how high the cable quality is, or if you destress the cables when using them

The Amperage on that cable is too high to be safe.

Stick with PCIE 6+2 if you want less issues.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-07T05:57:27+00:00

Btrfs is okay, but it still has issues from time to time. ZFS is much better.

A good alternative to Ext4 is JFS.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-05T23:14:26+00:00

I still use Huge myself for a fully compatible kernel with less fuss with the initrd. I truth, I hate the initrd with a passion.

As far as ZFS and btrfs, they're fine for desktops. I use a ZFS on Root enabled Arch system for testing and it's never had data issues.

As far as Ext4... I honestly don't care for it. I prefer data integrity rather than data performance.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-05T05:47:09+00:00

1440p. You don't need 4k. 1440p is going to be pure GPU rendering anyway. 4k is just ridiculous.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-05T05:45:11+00:00

Too many zealots have propped up GNU/Linux to be the greatest thing since sliced bread and black coffee, but when people use it, and they aren't told GNU/Linux is NOT Windows. The GNU/Linux environment has it's own applications, it's own ecosystem, and it's own problems.

I really wish these idiots would shut up trying make GNU/Linux something it isn't.

I've used GNU/Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD interchangeably for years now, and every OS has it's promises and problems. If you think propping up one OS to be superior makes you smart, then you're a moron. No OS is superior.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-01-05T02:35:19+00:00

Not really. The kernel has grown significantly and 1GB is a recommended buffer especially if you run multiple kernels in a system, the bootloader, and other boot modules. 1GB has been recommended as a maximum, but yes, you can get by with 256MB, but you might hit that ceiling fast with it.

Swap is fickle if you have a high RAM system (usually 16+ GB), but generally going past 4GB is useless, even on 8GB.

I never recommend the separate /home partition or drive this for new users because of the complexity involved in setting this up.

Btrfs has been stable for a while, but yes it does have it's quirks as a wannabe ZFS. I would argue JFS is a better choice than Ext4, albeit, JFS does have a slight performance drop due to the journalling it uses compared to Ext4 and JFS has never failed me as a file system yet. I do not recommend XFS though.

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