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Is anyone using something like AMD Ryzen™ 7 8745HS in #freebsd?

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    @dch I try to finish one article every weekend. I have quite a backlog of topics, that I want to write about :-)
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    Meanwhile, having fun with one of the two new "toys"#FreeBSD #RunBSD
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    @stefano This is indeed a great post. Refreshing to read - the author didn't distro-bash but instead highlighted how needs were met.I have been leaning toward #FreeBSD after 20 years on #Debian, which has a special place in my heart. However, FreeBSD's *consistency*, elegant design, and better documentation are driving factors and I just can't look away. Over these two decades, Linux has definitely changed. It's no longer what it once was: a #Unix clone. It's evolved into its own thing. Software does that and that's OK. But a lot of the changes or "improvements" have been needlessly reinventing the wheel with a worsening user experience and convoluted results. The audio subsystems (ALSA -> PulseAudio -> Pipewire and of course the mess that is/was JACK) and #SystemD are two big examples.On SystemD, I don't disagree that Linux needed a modern init system. SystemD is faster, but from a human perspective it's worse. I am now typing *more* characters to manage services. Is there a reason why it couldn't be designed to manage services like:> $SERVICE start/stop/restartInstead, we are left with:> systemctl $SERVICE start/stop/restartBut I digress.#TBT I fell in love with FreeBSD when I first started my Linux journey in the mid-2000s, but only dabbled in it as it was never in any production environment I managed.I have a FreeBSD VM sitting in my lab somewhere but due to other factors rarely do I get to it. I'm thinking it's time I grab a spare laptop, load it up, and use it as a daily driver to really force myself to learn it.
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    Goodbye to Pop!OS and cosmic desktop, at least for now. Tonight I installed #Freebsd 14.3 on my first generation core-i series Dell laptop. The Intel Centrino wireless is supported, which is great news. Hopefully I'll figure out what steps I'm missing to get it to connect.Modules are loaded, rc.conf edited, the interface is up / shows up with ifconfig, but it doesn't scan. It looks like the regulatory domain was set automatically during setup. So I'm not sure what I'm missing.I don't think I've every used a BSD with wifi, so it's a new challenge. Everything is a bit different than I'm used to. At least my old habit of typing ifconfig actually works, unlike on Linux these days.