There's the Installing Linux on a dead badger HOWTO, but NetBSD actually runs everywhere for realsies. It's also lovely to work with and has the nicest man pages imho.
How usable are the BSDs as a GUI daily driver? Like 99% of Linux applications work out of the box or more like 50%?
With new CVEs being discovered in ancient bedrock code on the daily, it seems prudent to switch to a NetBSD/OpenBSD/Qubes system for the next few years until some vulnerabilities might get smoothed over.
I use FreeBSD on all my machines for everything sinc about 11 years GUI is I3/X11/AMD-Card everything works, but please test it yourself, it's like with linux, you just know what's not/is working if you use it daily for all your edge-cases (maybe your scanner, maybe your barcode-scanner your Bluetooth-Stuff your wireless etcetc)
Overall i really love FreeBSD for everything computing (Pi/Laptop/Workstation/Servers).
And the community is great...wanna make a port/src-patch?...just send it to the bug-tracker, no rituals needed ;)
NetBSD 11 with Firefox 151 from pkgsrc on a custom CTWM is a usable daily driver for Emacs daemon mode GUI/TUI and console tmux simultaneous use. Remote in from a Windows or macOS desktop.
[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=524...
[1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/an-onli...
With new CVEs being discovered in ancient bedrock code on the daily, it seems prudent to switch to a NetBSD/OpenBSD/Qubes system for the next few years until some vulnerabilities might get smoothed over.
Overall i really love FreeBSD for everything computing (Pi/Laptop/Workstation/Servers).
And the community is great...wanna make a port/src-patch?...just send it to the bug-tracker, no rituals needed ;)
- https://www.ctwm.org/index.html