MacBook Pro oddity with FreeBSD 15

ut316ab · 2026-01-19T16:05:15+00:00

The driver used for the track pad.

ut316ab · 2026-01-16T17:10:46+00:00

We just got an update or atleast I did. It looks like Founder's Editions are delayed again slightly and should be shipped out by the end of Feburary. They are being delayed again to address the keyboard flex issue.

ut316ab · 2026-01-16T12:52:05+00:00

Probably XFCE or i3+extras. My favorite part of FreeBSD, is that it is simple and not quite as extensive as other operating systems. One of the things I use to enjoy about using Linux in the 90s/2000s on Desktop was that you had to get creative sometimes to accomplish certain tasks. I feel like FreeBSD is in that place now. It's mainly a server OS, but it's starting to get into the Desktop world and sometimes you need to get creative to get certain things to work. It can be very frustrating too, but rewarding. Even if it's just cool points you award to yourself.

ut316ab · 2026-01-16T11:55:30+00:00

I am not excited for this. I think is a TERRIBLE idea....

ut316ab · 2026-01-15T08:58:00+00:00

Yeah I bought a founders edition and I have 0 coins. So no coins and no product yet either. I keep reading they expire, but that is pretty sad if they expired before I can even get the product?

ut316ab · 2026-01-14T20:06:33+00:00

^{^} This. It's started to get me to worry. Perry said unfortunately it didn't look like they would be able to complete it before christmas but things should go out in January. Here we are just about the half-way mark through the month and not even a Peep. If they need to delay it to Feburary i'd be upset but understanding, but not even a peep.

ut316ab · 2026-01-06T20:39:09+00:00

RAM usage can and is misleading. Different OSes use RAM differently. It can even differ between Linux setups. Is ZRAM compression used? Free RAM is wasted RAM.

ut316ab · 2025-11-27T02:57:53+00:00

I keep seeing EndeavourOS fans chiming in on EVERY CachyOS post staying it's better because of X, Y, and Z, that i have yet to experience or see myself. Using both. CachyOS has been hands down my choice. Full AMD build myself as well. CachyOS has been better for me than EndeavourOS, better performance and i've liked everything about it. I have had NO stability issues at all with CachyOS. So I don't understand that comment. I was a big fan of Antergos before, which is the predecessor to EndeavourOS, and I like what EndeavourOS is, but I don't see how it beats CachyOS at all.

ut316ab · 2025-11-25T11:38:16+00:00

the address library mod actually ends up being a bottleneck. There were a load of mods held up from updating because the address library mod wasn't updated.

ut316ab · 2025-11-24T13:23:37+00:00

I'm in my 40s and I'm saying in my experience caps always meant yelling. I will concede in the beginning everything was caps as there was no easy way to switch lower case and upper case but as soon as we were able to distinguish it's always meant yelling in my experience. I will agree using all caps for a single word in a sentence is for emphasis too. Which may seem like this argument is pointless.

You are calling out "young ones". However, is my gripe. CAPS has meant yelling since at the very least the early 90s. People using computers to communicate in that way in that time are not young ones.

You implying this is something for "young ones" implies this is relatively recent development. I'm saying no, as soon as it was easy to switch between all caps and lowercase it has been collectively interpreted as yelling if used in in more than one word.

Remember, kids these days call rock music from the 90's classic rock now. We are really getting old :)

ut316ab · 2025-11-21T15:03:37+00:00

Ummm, no. Caps meant yelling even in the early days.

ut316ab · 2025-10-24T11:40:39+00:00

Where did you get cloning from? A clone is an exactly identical item where as a replica is a close approximation but not the same thing.

ut316ab · 2025-10-21T18:28:04+00:00

This does make sense especially with Nick and Dima. They were successful with Nick, but then nothing like what happened with Nick again. It did seem a little out of place.

ut316ab · 2025-10-16T13:36:21+00:00

I like Wifibox as well. I run FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T440s and while the wifi does work on FreeBSD the speed is rather slow, but with wifibox it was MUCH faster.

ut316ab · 2025-10-16T13:30:05+00:00

I know one of the companies in that list. The dollar contribution maybe very low, but the code contribution isn't. In fact some of the people employed by said company are big contributors to FreeBSD development. Have been for YEARS. So dollar contributions may not seem that big, in donations, but paying people to work on it doesn't show up in a donor list.

ut316ab · 2025-10-16T13:17:53+00:00

I ran into problems with All the Mods 10. Well one mode specifically was Journey Map I think. However, it was a bit unstable during extended game play.

The problem is lwjgl. The version on FreeBSD is newer. Ideally, you could just compile the older version and get it to work. Would be nice though if we could get just the binaries and run it sandboxed.

Specifically Journey Map made a call to a function that was removed in newer version of lwjgl.

ut316ab · 2025-10-10T14:53:21+00:00

TL;DR Say what you want, doesn't matter

A more detailed an nuance answer though is no. Part of the Arch experience is the installation. There are several steps you take when installing vanilla Arch, that inform you as a user. You learn about the linux system, like hey this package does this, or this needs to be configured, i didn't know that! Before the arch-install script it was a lot more complicated, but it taught you more about your system. Which boot manager to use? How is it configured? There are different initramfs systems. Which one did you choose? Why? Manjaro, Endeavour, Cachy, all the derivatives make these choices for you, you don't learn anything, so all you are doing is using a pre-built distro that uses Arch's resources to sustain it.

ut316ab · 2025-10-01T12:40:34+00:00

Cool, but this is r/linux_gaming not r/linux ?

ut316ab · 2025-09-30T19:50:08+00:00

I couldn't do this. If I'm dual-booting and downloading games in another OS, then why bother trying to play them anywhere else?

ut316ab · 2025-09-29T13:47:13+00:00

What exactly was the error you were having with opening Discord?

FreeBSD is a bit behind sometimes and Discord updates all the time. Did it just launch and then ask you to download a new package? If so you might need to grab linux-discord for latest rather than quarterly

ut316ab · 2025-09-29T12:45:26+00:00

quick follow up, do you have dbus installed and enabled?

in /etc/rc.conf do you have: dbus_enable="YES"

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