I installed FreeBSD on a box a few days ago. It was very frustrating. I didn’t know what I was doing and found myself with a lot of questions. It took a while for me to get comfortable. Now that I’ve been using it a few day, wow, let me say that it’s AMAZING. So, so fast and beautiful. I’m so glad I stuck with it.
Everything works so smoothly today. Of course, I had to do little things to get things to work well. For example, backspace wouldn’t work in Emacs out of the box. My keyboard didn’t work out of the box on X11. I had to add this to my .emacs file:
(normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1)
And I had to add this to my /etc/sysctl.conf:
kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=6
Now that I’m here (using StumpWM, Emacs, and FreeBSD 13), I’m super happy I stuck with it. FreeBSD runs so well. The way the system is designed (installing packages, ZFS out of the box, the documentation (amazing man pages), the folder structure, minimal bloat, et cetera) is beautiful. Going forward, I’ll be using FreeBSD for my server(s). And I’m going to try to use it as much as I can as my daily driver.
Everything works so smoothly today. Of course, I had to do little things to get things to work well. For example, backspace wouldn’t work in Emacs out of the box. My keyboard didn’t work out of the box on X11. I had to add this to my .emacs file:
And I had to add this to my /etc/sysctl.conf:
Now that I’m here (using StumpWM, Emacs, and FreeBSD 13), I’m super happy I stuck with it. FreeBSD runs so well. The way the system is designed (installing packages, ZFS out of the box, the documentation (amazing man pages), the folder structure, minimal bloat, et cetera) is beautiful. Going forward, I’ll be using FreeBSD for my server(s). And I’m going to try to use it as much as I can as my daily driver.