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by rxlim 3446 days ago
FreeBSD, so the migration is not just away from Debian but also Linux. Of course problems always arise in such operations, but in general we have been very happy with the change, and I'm just as excited about FreeBSD as I was with Debian before.
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gkya 3446 days ago
Do you migrate you workstation to FreeBSD too, or your servers and the like only?

In any case I want to take this opportunity to note that FreeBSD is quite nice as a daily driver on your workstation. The only missing thing is bug-free suspend/hibernate, which works for some and for some doesn't.

edit: added missing adverbs.

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nerflad 3446 days ago
In my experience, you're also rolling the dice when you suspend Linux. My x99 workstation, z77 workstation, and XPS 13 have all failed to resume before. But Windows has done the same. I guess ACPI is a mess.
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Fnoord 3446 days ago
> But Windows has done the same. I guess ACPI is a mess.

Of course, you don't mention macOS. I never had issues with suspend on any of my MBPs. If I did, it turned out that was my battery got empty, and the few times this happened I did think about suspend failing. Turned out I was wrong.

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gkya 3446 days ago
Thing is though it's an OS tied to a certain hardware since years. If Apple couldn't provide a seamless experience it'd be pure incompetence.
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nerflad 3445 days ago
Good for you. I've never owned a MBP, and this thread is about switching from Debian to FreeBSD.
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Fnoord 3444 days ago
You completely missed the point. If ACPI is a mess, how come macOS doesn't suffer from the issue?
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nerflad 3444 days ago
Look, I'm sure the macOS implementation of ACPI is great.

I said "I GUESS ACPI is a mess", because most implementations I've used (and I've only used it; I know nothing low-level about it at all) have had some problem or another.

How wrong of me not to have any experience with your preferred platform, and leave it out of the discussion.

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