Installing FreeBSD 14 on AMD64 Hardware: The Hidden Secrets

[@patrickprucha5522]

KDE is my best too. Its all inclusive. Thanks for the video. Get well soon!

[@Andrath]

You can have user and group the same, in the prompt to invite the user to other groups, you can pick wheel and video there (space separated)

[@DV-ml4fm]

As a linux user I am starting to use freebsd again. Right now I'm 90% linux and 10% freebsd. I use freebsd mainly as a desktop.

[@fdg394]

Does everything works for you? Ie audio, video, wifi. Can you actually watch things like Netflix?

[@godnyx117]

How did it went after all these months? I was able to create a custom kernel and when 14.1 releases, I plan to use it on real hardware for the first time!

[@godnyx117]

@@fdg394 Netflix serves run of FreeBSD, lol! Can't you run it on the browser?

[@MarkusHobelsberger]

You can absolutely use sudo or doas if your login group is not wheel. The login group should stay the group with the username by default for desktop systems. Just invite the user to wheel like you do with video and operator and you will be fine.

[@Sharp931]

2:52 are you sure? I don't know about 13.3, but 15 has i386 images.

[@godnyx117]

Thank you for the video! I was wondering, is there any point to enable (both as an option and compiled into the kernel) DTrace support if you are not a developer and don't do debugging?

[@Knirin]

As long as a user is in wheel or staff they can use su by default. Neither need to be their login group. Valid for both 13 and later. If it wasn’t true earlier I don’t know when the requirement changed.

[@borninthedark7915]

I installed freebsd "no multilib" and it's lovely!

[@zorabixun]

It would be good to have a graphical installer, like un a Linux Mint for example. Most parameters are default, it seems the FreeBSD developers like the old fashion, making feeling to install old fashion distro 🤔 but we really don't need text installer, confusing new people, dns, ipv6, etc. It will be interesting to try FreeBSD Thank you 🎉

[@Andrath]

What's wrong with a text installer? Less moving parts, less stuff to break.

[@kianseibel2236]

oh, personaly I hate graphical installers. Acctually I don't like any of graphical interfaces except from video games :D But TUI are minimalistic and pretty comfortable, for me. It's because all what I need to use a TUI - is my keyboard. So, I like, there are OS, that don't use this graphical mess (that is not so bad, acctualy. Just I don't like it)

[@loriansaceanu]

I made a DVD with FreeBSD 14. 😊😊

[@staticalmo]

with the .disc version I had the extremely weird problem of "pkg not found" and the installation failed

[@petelongrs]

Balena Etcher is a good alternative on macOS.

[@kev2020-z9s]

I use mintstick or imager (pi) on linux you mite be able to use ventoy.

[@fdg394]

Does everything work as expected? Ie sound, wifi (if any), suspend/resume etc? Could you recommend a good desktop system to use with FreeBSD (and when I say use it means... all the hardware is recognised and actually works well!). Thanks and great channel!

[@Eugensson]

Do you really need to Rufus your ISO on the thumb drive? I thought you can just copy the files over now (at least that works with windows ISOs these days as long as your thumb drive is GPT partitioned)

[@UserMarginal]

I use dd only.

[@dingokidneys]

Is there any point in installing lib32? I'd have thought it was only needed if you really wanted to run specific 32bit stuff. I've been playing a little with FreeBSD on an ancient Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop from 2008. I can run 13.2 but when I tried 14 it all ended in tears so 13.2 it is. Still won't do full functionality on the trackpad and the webcam is black magic that is totally beyond me but I did manage to compile and install the driver for the wifi card so, Yay? I may have a Raspberry Pi 3B+ that will soon be available for buggerising around with so I might give 14 a run on that. 🤞

[@ByteMeCompletely]

It's missing the Linux magic of routing audio through the video driver to the HDMI port. Mint, KDE Neon, etc., produce sound out of the HDMI cable, FreeBSD does not.

[@astralnut6313]

I installed 13 on my 2950 Threaddriper and RTX 2080 and it worked just fine all the way to desktop. Updates broke it thugh so I updated to 14 but that was a super struggle. It did not want to select the correct video driver. After, several tries I choose to install everything and that worked.

[@PilviKujanen-xr6pc]

Only thing keeping me from using FreeBSD on all my machines is the horror of trying to get Xorg start up and drivers working on machines(laptops) that outputs video thru Integrated GPU and also has GTX 1650 etc. That is why I am saddened that best CPUs with good integrated graphics cards are "premium" items that are usually only in "premium" laptops that also got RTX 4090 or some other useless piece of hardware in addition. Luckily my old machine that only got AMD Ryzen 5 4500U and its internal GPU works fine for most of my daily activities including but not limited to OpenSCAD, Godot, Web Browsing, Anime watching, streaming, video recording, code compiling. On the side note laptops are garbage at times even without such issues with the UEFI/BIOS being buggy mess that wont let me boot up half of linux distros nor bsds after the install and sometimes the issue gets fixed in later firmware update and sometimes it wont be, sometimes they get patched by the OS developers itself as some workaround and once the workaround broke the boot after the issue was fixed in a firmware update. I do not have experience with regular desktops in like +10 years or so don't know if that side is also plagued by crappy firmware.

[@Jonathan.R.Pereira]

I've got a Lenovo X1 Carbon G2 with Core i7 4th Gen and Intel HD 4400... Would anyone know if this hardware is fully supported.. Like would the browser have full Hardware Acceleration, Encode and Decode. Because under linux, my CPU runs at 100% when watching a KZbin Video.

[@sam_sheridan]

Wish they'd fix the wifi on freebsd, using wifibox is a pain on my laptpp

[@Knirin]

Yes, I have heard a cat snore. Mine does when she sleeps.

[@petelongrs]

Sounds like the convids; had it too.

[@tomv3999]

I still think FreeBSD is the OS that god uses. I just wish it had much better compatibility with laptops. So I generally run it in a VM (typically virsh). But damn it is a beauty.

[@godnyx117]

Oh, don't be silly! We all know that god uses TempleOS ;)

[@tomv3999]

Why do you hate WiFi? (I am a bit spoiled since I have Ethernet wiring in my entire house, but I do use WiFi with my laptop).

[@petelongrs]

Cats are always asleep; or are they?

[@ByteMeCompletely]

FreeBSD doesn't support my AMD 780M graphics, so no x windows.

[@petelongrs]

Love the wifi disrespect, wired all the way.

[@VladiFx]

yak! ... windows??

[@kztuptuo7076]

BSD GUY using windows to create usb bsd installer. Yup I know the tool is just a tool, use what suits best for the scenario. But still it kinda looks funny.

[@amirmomehp]

The fact that your using win 11 offends me as a geek

[@GaryHTech]

My work here is done 🤣

[@VulcanOnWheels]

I stopped watching this video because of the nonsense that suddenly appeared in it.

[@leenajanda]

why does freebsd not have a graphical installation like linux?

[@Cybersecurityisgood]

Many Linux distributions have cli installer …