Post #3859719
2026-07-16 13:40 UTC
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@kirby@freerobuxextremist.com 2026-07-16 13:43
@techokami@woof.tech >Well, which one? FreeBSD if you want a similar to Linux experience. >And will it actually play nicely with my hardware? Probably. It's played nicely with all the hardware I've thrown at it. >And will I be able to still use things like WINE to run certain programs that don't have *NIX versions? i unno. wine's been ported but still hit or miss >And will I be able to use something to access Steam and my game library? Picrel >And how much of a pain in the ass will it be to continue using disks that still have NTFS and BtrFS partitions? I remember fighting ntfs-3g at some point so I could do something with an NTFS disk on FreeBSD. I think it worked in the end. As for the latter please see picrel a 2nd time Yeah welcome back to what Linux was like in the early 2010s.
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@linear@nya.social 2026-07-16 13:56
@techokami@woof.tech @kirby@freerobuxextremist.com you can run steam on freebsd with plasma6 wayland, using only tools that you can install directly from the package manager, without having to build anything from source. doing it properly does mean writing and running a script to launch it, but you can cut corners and not do that. and you can run steam games this way using native (not emulated-linux) wine/proton, with proprietary nvidia drivers officially released by nvidia, on a dual-graphics laptop from this side of the decade boundary. the open source graphics drivers are derived from linux. getting graphics drivers set up is not trivial, but once you're done it generally does just work, and it is all in the package manager. you can use fusefs-lkl to load linux btrfs as a fuse library and mount your btrfs filesystems, but i'd recommend if possible using zfs for things shared between linux and freebsd instead. can't speak on ntfs. see this thread from a while back with some screenshots of me running steam RE: https://nya.social/notes/819af22734a0975283376d99