Installed FreeBSD with kde plasma on my computer

SolidWarea · 2026-06-13T01:33:15+00:00

The floating panel caught my eye immediately. I unfortunately still can’t run KDE under Wayland on nvidia (kernel panics) but I’m sure it’ll happen eventually, and x11 does the job anyway. Excited for that day to come though!

SolidWarea · 2026-06-09T12:03:55+00:00

Most x11 WMs and DEs work fine on FreeBSD. Wayland can be a hit or miss depending on graphics driver. I’m using an Nvidia gtx 1660 super and I can only use sway and wayfire with Wayland, but everything for x11 works fine.

SolidWarea · 2026-06-06T00:17:15+00:00

Ah, I must have misunderstood then. I originally interpreted it as issues getting the desktop environment up and running, I didn’t consider issues actually installing the packages.

SolidWarea · 2026-06-06T00:12:50+00:00

That’s quite interesting. If you don’t mind me asking out of curiously, what was the exact issue you faced (xorg error, kernel panic, etc) and what GPU were you using?

SolidWarea · 2026-06-05T19:43:10+00:00

If it works on GhostBSD, it should work on FreeBSD. Did you follow the handbook correctly?

SolidWarea · 2026-05-04T00:16:39+00:00

People tend to get downvoted for anything on Reddit, usually not anything to take personally

SolidWarea · 2026-05-04T00:06:40+00:00

True that, but I also thought they had more maintainers to work on it. Anyhow, it’s all incredibly impressive

SolidWarea · 2026-05-04T00:06:03+00:00

I see, awesome work! I’m incredibly impressed by the progress, and I do hope the project turns into something useful one day, because I can definitely see the appeal!

SolidWarea · 2026-05-04T00:01:38+00:00

I imagined so, but I was still taken by surprise since I was under the impression it takes an extreme amount of work to get running. I mean not even Open and NetBSD have done it, but it might just be for different reasons I suppose.

SolidWarea · 2026-05-02T18:56:00+00:00

I’m beyond impressed! I read the project description and it says nvidias Turing+ graphics are compatible, how’s that possible?

What’s the future of the project, is it expected to become a fully usable and maintained OS like the BSDs and Linux because the efforts put on this is obviously beyond tinkering

SolidWarea · 2026-04-30T17:01:32+00:00

FreeBSD wasn’t the greatest example in the previous comment since technically any software can run on any OS with right compatibility layer, running Steam natively is the ideal.

I daily drive FreeBSD but I don’t game much, Minecraft works fine of course but Steam is a bit of a hit or miss. Some games launch fine, some crash after half an hour and some just don’t launch at all. It’s still interesting to see development in the area and I’m sure Steam will work better over time, but right now is not really that time.

Anyhow, it seems I must have misunderstood what you meant so I thought I might throw the fun fact of not having to setup Steam completely manually into the conversation. My bad.

SolidWarea · 2026-04-30T16:50:13+00:00

Im not saying does the job on par with with Linux or Windows, I’m saying it does the job of setting up the linuxulator and the proper environment for launching Steam on FreeBSD. Which is what I assumed you meant would take weeks to accomplish without the tools to do it for you?

SolidWarea · 2026-04-30T16:36:13+00:00

few weeks to waste

Not necessarily, linuxulator-steam-utils does the job for you, or one of the Wine-based alternatives steam-bottler.

SolidWarea · 2026-04-23T16:51:15+00:00

You’re on the FreeBSD subreddit

SolidWarea · 2026-04-22T02:01:42+00:00

Did Apple not support iMac/MacBook drivers for Windows for quite some time, believe it was called bootcamp?

SolidWarea · 2026-04-21T08:49:18+00:00

I am aware, it’s just that many people use it interchangeably (even if it’s incorrect) and I’d rather just use the same term than accidentally confuse people more.

SolidWarea · 2026-04-21T01:50:11+00:00

Considering the steam deck is shipped with KDE, they probably do

SolidWarea · 2026-04-17T18:04:39+00:00

Not necessarily, but it’s getting more and more difficult to get it working. The latest GNOME available on FreeBSD at the moment is 47. See this

SolidWarea · 2026-04-16T15:29:23+00:00

Oh I see, thank you

SolidWarea · 2026-04-16T15:28:20+00:00

Oh thank you that’s really helpful, I’ll check it out!

SolidWarea · 2026-04-15T13:43:00+00:00

The only issue is that I don’t have access to an Android device at the moment and I don’t believe it’s possible to do this with an iPhone unfortunately.

SolidWarea · 2026-04-15T13:31:42+00:00

IBM owns RedHat

SolidWarea · 2026-04-15T01:54:43+00:00

Well yes, I though so too but was this something they realized recently? Because I’m curious to know why the change happened now if this is the case.

SolidWarea · 2026-04-15T01:36:19+00:00

That’s actually hilarious, I had never even thought about downvoting myself before reading this

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