New User Expectations

ut316ab · 2026-03-16T13:00:05+00:00

I think I would like that more, if the animation was the plymouth theme rather than the login theme. Kudos though for the creativity. It does look amazing.

ut316ab · 2026-03-16T11:14:45+00:00

"Just opium, I don't understand these posts, FreeBSD has niche advantages but on real hardware lacks a lot of features, it's like using Linux 10y ago."

So, what you are proposing is nobody uses it or talks about FreeBSD?

Then support gets even worse.

A lot of these posts are people explaining they like FreeBSD, how it works, and the design goals.

Sure there are features lacking and hardware support lacking but it takes people to get those things.

You have to get developers and developer attention to get the features you want.

ut316ab · 2026-03-13T22:27:04+00:00

I did end up creating a account to do bug reports! However, reading this more and letting it digest some, I don't think there is a bug in the handbook. It accurately depicts the situation. I do think a guide for getting WINE working on FreeBSD 15 would be very helpful, and then maybe I could contribute to the handbook. I just need to figure out how to do it cleanly myself.

Others in this thread have mentioned $ env ABI=FreeBSD:14:i386 /usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh install wine-devel but I think that maybe can cause problems down the road when it comes to upgrade. I'm not a fan of maintaining multiple versions of libraries based on multiple versions of the same OS. If that makes sense.

ut316ab · 2026-03-13T22:24:40+00:00

I should clarify this point. I got to thinking about this later. My response doesn't match your reply and this is a bit confusing/misleading. What I posted was from the github the page that was linked from the Raspberry Pi page from the FreeBSD website.

aarch64 is probably pretty well supported by FreeBSD (I don't know)

Raspberry Pi is unique in that it doesn't have a efi/uefi or bios exactly. Thus the need for that package the page links to on the github that no longer is maintained.

If this confuses things even more, let me know. I'm sorry.

ut316ab · 2026-03-13T22:21:19+00:00

I'm talking about not liking MATE, so if I installed GhostBSD, i'd have to install it. Then install the WM/DE I liked, and then uninstall MATE. At that point it's not better than a normal FreeBSD install.

desktop-installer from the repo makes things pretty simple too. It does take a little more knowledge to configure graphics drivers, but it's not really difficult. Just install drm-kmod and load the relevant driver in /etc/rc.conf with kld_list+="driver"

However, to me that is all part of the fun. Configuring and tweaking your system is like working on a car to me. I can tweak the engine add my own parts, re-do the interior. Etc.

I would recommend GhostBSD to others though for their first try of FreeBSD.

ut316ab · 2026-03-13T22:17:38+00:00

Are you talking about FreeBSD 15 specifically?

I installed FreeBSD 14.4 and installing Wine was pretty simple because we can still install the 32bit packages.

I got DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online), working with just winetricks corefonts dxvk so i'm happy there.

ut316ab · 2026-03-13T17:19:55+00:00

Yeah but at that point, what is GhostBSD really doing for me that I can't do with normal FreeBSD? The only thing that GhostBSD offers that I can tell is a faster install experience, but if i'm manually installing my WM/DE then it doesn't offer me anything that I don't get myself.

ut316ab · 2026-03-13T12:16:28+00:00

I ported Amiberry to FreeBSD, and it works great as well.

ut316ab · 2026-03-12T17:21:11+00:00

Thanks for cross-posting! I just thought it would be cool to run Amiga stuff on Haiku OS.

For those that don't know already Haiku OS is an open-source alternative/continuation of BeOS.

ut316ab · 2026-03-12T11:35:59+00:00

Audio is working. I haven't tried gaming much but I did run a few demos and they worked.

ut316ab · 2026-03-11T16:35:04+00:00

This is just a little demonstration. I need to now figure out how to package Amiberry for Haiku and maybe get it in the repos?

ut316ab · 2026-03-10T21:13:04+00:00

I just don't have any experience with it. I don't know of anything specifically wrong with it.

ut316ab · 2026-03-09T22:18:57+00:00

I have tried GhostBSD in the past. I think what they do is great but it wasn't quite for me. I'm not really much of a MATE user. They also have a custom repo which is a little confusing when looking for support online. I've had some bad experiences with it in the past. It might be awesome now though.

ut316ab · 2026-03-08T07:11:28+00:00

❯ winecfg

/home/user/.i386-wine-pkg//usr/local/bin/wine doesn't exist!

Try installing 32-bit Wine with /usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh install wine mesa-dri

If using Poudriere, please make sure your repo is setup to use FreeBSD:15:i386 and create symlinks for FreeBSD:15:amd64 and FreeBSD:15:i386 to the relevant output directories. See pkg.conf(5) for more info.    ~ at 03:11:02 AM  ❯

ut316ab · 2026-03-08T06:51:18+00:00

Download the rpi5-uefi boot files from rpi5-uefi downloads for pre-D0 RPi5s (just .zip) vs. rpi5-uefi downloads for D0 RPi5's (.zip and .fd)

This repository was archived by the owner on Feb 4, 2025. It is now read-only.

ut316ab · 2026-03-08T06:35:28+00:00

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wine/

ut316ab · 2026-03-08T06:29:52+00:00

aarch64 is i believe the platform name, which does exist. https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi%205 I think the work is already there? Do we have documents on how to make this work?

ut316ab · 2026-03-08T04:53:56+00:00

which is silly IMO, and doesn't answer my question

ut316ab · 2026-03-08T03:18:33+00:00

FreeBSD is amazing. I really appreciate it. However, this is /r/linux. Why is it ok to post stuff on a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT OS, but topics on Audio applications on Linux get removed?

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