[lifeisstillgood]

I dropped FreeBSD as my main laptop about four years ago (and have invested a fair bit of time on dockerising my experience on ubuntu so going back is hard)

But what I wanted then (and dreamed of having a million or so to make it real) was a FreeBSD reference laptop - basically a distribution of FreeBSD that worked in this laptop series - you bought the laptop and a years support and basically three hackers just kept on producing patches and co-ordinating drivers and making simple tools and simple videos on how to keep your base running.

I work on top of my laptop. I would prefer to just take the barest plain vanilla, and not have to work on my laptop unless I choose to.

[zelly]

> basically a distribution of FreeBSD that worked in this laptop series - you bought the laptop and a years support and basically three hackers just kept on producing patches and co-ordinating drivers and making simple tools and simple videos on how to keep your base running.

This is basically the business model of Apple Computers

[jonhohle]

I had a professor who made this same comment all the way back in 2003. I had mentioned it would be nice to have a supported Unix-like OS on a laptop. A few months later I bought my first PowerBook and have been using a commercially supported Unix ever since (and FreeBSD on my headless computers).