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  • (Score: 2) by srobert on Monday February 23, @03:11PM (1 child)

    by srobert (4803) on Monday February 23, @03:11PM (#1434662)

    My wife gave me a laptop one Christmas that ran FreeBSD perfectly for years. I got a new laptop intending to run FreeBSD on it, but the wifi card wasn't compatible. Void Linux is a good substitute. If I couldn't use Void, or some sort of Linux, I'd get hardware that would allow me to return to FreeBSD.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday February 23, @05:57PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday February 23, @05:57PM (#1434681) Journal

    Sounds like a reasonable option. I've dabbled with *BSDs, but they have much worse hardware support than Linux. That's ignoring software support. When I last tested one of the *BSDs, it worked more or less for basic things. Though, if you wanted X thing, you were likely to need to compile a thing yourself. I don't want to compile every thing I want to function on my computer, thanks.

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