As someone who has been using FreeBSD for a long time on various machines of mine, both physical machines in my home and VMs in the cloud, I'm wondering how many people (both in absolute numbers and in percentages) run the beta releases on their hardware. My general impression, which stems mostly from the description I once read on the FreeBSD downloads page and from elsewhere is that if you want to help find bugs in…
>Until that day I'll just have to accept that every week or so I might have to hit that hard reset button on my desktop That really must be your Hardware, i have FB12.1-REL and it's rockstable on 5 different Machines from 10yo to 1 two laptops and three Workstations. And many many VM's and two really big physical servers
- I wonder how many other people use Nvidia graphics cards on FreeBSD and on Linux.
- A few years ago I used to mine crypto on my graphics card. I made like $20 from it, so if the graphics card is physically in bad shape and this is what caused it then gg on my part for ruining a ~$390 graphics card in order to make about $20.
- The PSU is probably the oldest component in my computer. In fact I think the store I bought it from has been shut down for many years even; that's how old that PSU is. Could it be supplying my computer with bad quality power? Maybe.
- My RAM is of the non-ECC variant. Could cosmic rays be to blame for the crashes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The BOFH would certainly have said that this was the reason, but even in the real world it could be maybe?