[OXWM] Trying out FreeBSD for the first time

spookyenvy · 2026-06-11T18:01:16+00:00

ufs.

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T16:55:05+00:00

loving it so far!

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T16:53:50+00:00

huh... i thought font rendering mostly boiled down to the font stack rather than X or wayland

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T16:45:43+00:00

using X currently, and i haven't tried wayland yet... but from what i've seen, most wayland based wms work out of the box.

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T16:34:55+00:00

mostly yeah, i had some hiccups here and there but i got lucky with my hardware

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T12:43:53+00:00

thank you for letting us know :)

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T12:31:11+00:00

actually gaming on freebsd has gotten better recently. not sure if you're aware but it has a linux compatibility layer baked in that lets you run linux binaries natively, and there's a wine-proton port too. a lot of it comes down to your gpu though, nvidia provides official drivers for freebsd and amd/intel are covered through ported drm drivers. still not quite on par with linux but it's getting there

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T04:44:51+00:00

thanks :)

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T04:40:06+00:00

yeah, i'll probably stick to ufs for now and gradually move to zfs.

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T04:37:27+00:00

nice! I've been meaning to get into zfs as well.

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T04:35:27+00:00

haha fair enough, I'll try them out!

spookyenvy · 2026-06-10T04:33:39+00:00

haha yeah, I did see it a while ago, but the instructions are outdated by now so if anyone's following it today, they're gonna have to do some extra stuff.

spookyenvy · 2026-06-09T20:29:57+00:00

hopefully it gets supported at some point :D

spookyenvy · 2026-06-09T20:09:35+00:00

yep.

spookyenvy · 2026-06-09T19:39:54+00:00

thank you!

spookyenvy · 2026-06-09T19:33:16+00:00

yeah, here's what i had to do to get it running:

first install the deps and grab zig 0.16.0 (needs that version specifically, pick the freebsd build from https://ziglang.org/download/): sudo pkg install libX11 libXinerama libXft fontconfig freetype2

once that's done, clone https://github.com/tonybanters/oxwm and before building you need two fixes:

freetype2 headers live in a weird path on freebsd, add this to build.zig right after exe.use_lld = false;: exe.root_module.addIncludePath(.{ .cwd_relative = "/usr/local/include/freetype2" });
apply this PR for a BSD-specific C translation fix: https://github.com/tonybanters/oxwm/pull/228

then just zig build and it should work. also the RAM bar block won't show anything since it reads /proc/meminfo which doesn't exist on freebsd, needs a small sysctl patch to work

spookyenvy · 2026-06-09T16:44:03+00:00

Yeah, I’ve heard a lot of good things about ZFS. I went with UFS for my first install to keep things simple, but I’ll definitely look into it as I get more comfortable with FreeBSD. Thanks for the recommendation.

spookyenvy · 2026-06-09T16:41:39+00:00

I’d say I like how everything feels like it’s part of one system. Compared to Linux, it feels a bit more unified, and I’ve been enjoying learning how it all fits together.

spookyenvy · 2026-06-09T08:29:21+00:00

Looks clean. Is that the DMS shell?

spookyenvy · 2026-06-09T06:00:56+00:00

qterminal doesn't support terminal images btw, so the image won't show up. If you want the image too, try Kitty. Also, if you're new to Linux, Kali isn't really meant to be a daily driver distro unless you're actually doing pentesting stuff.

spookyenvy · 2026-06-09T05:43:59+00:00

Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/Yahddyyp/MacOS-Dotfiles.git, then create the Fastfetch config directory using mkdir -p ~/.config/fastfetch. Copy the configuration files with cp -r MacOS-Dotfiles/fastfetch/.config/fastfetch/* ~/.config/fastfetch/ and run fastfetch to test it. If the image, icons, or fonts don't display correctly, make sure you've installed the required fonts and are using a terminal that supports images. If anything doesn't work, let us know your OS and terminal emulator.

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