alt Hacker NewsIMO "Gaming" is a level above "Desktop". You wouldn't play games on FreeBSD either yet it is a perfectly acceptable desktop OS for productivity apps. The question, can QNX still run Firefox and LibreOffice?
IMO "Gaming" is a level above "Desktop". You wouldn't play games on FreeBSD either yet it is a perfectly acceptable desktop OS for productivity apps. The question, can QNX still run Firefox and LibreOffice?
So I've used FreeBSD as a desktop for a very long time. I don't think it's acceptable desktop OS by today's standards at all:
- graphics card drivers years behind (actually what made me switch to linux)
- A lot of linux graphic environment tied itself to systemd and it's friends
- Specifically, firefox lacks some features that available on Linux, Windows and macOS (related to memory consumptions and overall snappiness)
- Many things depend on FreeBSD specific patches to work and if you aren't a seasoned porter, good luck porting it yourself[1]
[1]: this one obviously depends on what kind of software you require. For it me it's a miss.