hectorgrey.bsky.social
AuDHD programming and rpg nerd. He/Him. B1 Welsh Speaker. Just taking a look around here; left twitter years ago for mental health. Terminal enthusiast (I only open a window manager because people have decided I need modern web apps to get things done)
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So, the last time I tried using bluetooth on a freebsd laptop, I couldn't connect my headphones to the laptop - it wasn't accepting 0000 as a pin, for whatever reason. It might have just been that the bluetooth chip wasn't supported for the same reason the wifi chip wasn't, but I couldn't be sure.
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lol fair. To be honest, I do kinda prefer neovim - but I do like emacs.
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Oh? I wasn't aware proton worked as well on FreeBSD as on Linux. For B, wifi has major issues, and bluetooth isn't exactly great (though I'm not sure how related it is to wifi, given that wifi and bluetooth are often on the same pci-e device, and how much is down to tooling).
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Half of me wonders how much FreeBSD would appeal to modern windows users if it were A: as good at supporting Windows games as Linux currently is, B: as good at hardware support as Linux currently is, and C: had a graphical installer. I think being a cohesive OS would be to its benefit, at least...
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Honestly, the customisation is probably the biggest draw for me, with the AUR coming second. That said, I would like to jump over to FreeBSD at some point - just as soon as the support for my wifi card is finished.
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How about emacs evil-mode (basically vim implemented in emacs lisp)?
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Honestly, I like being able to have chat open in a tmux pane. Then again, I'm one of those weirdos who only bothers opening a window manager because the modern web is almost impossible to make a good text browser for...
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I've been using Arch for years. Some AUR stuff can be an issue if the packages stop getting supported, but while I can't honestly say I've never had a problem using just the standard repos, I can honestly say that I've never had a problem that I wouldn't also have had on a different distro.
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I like ThinkPads, but my most recent laptop is a FrameWork. It has a really nice keyboard (as laptop keyboards go), physical switches for camera and mic, and is almost as upgradeable as a desktop, so with luck I'll never need to buy a whole new laptop again. It was expensive, but hopefully worth it.
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There are times I miss my old Commodore 64. Sure, it couldn't do most of the stuff my new laptop can, but it also didn't allow me to doom scroll social media.
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They even paid to be an official Unix, iirc