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Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by BoorishBears »

duaneb wrote: post #80
BoorishBears wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who said Git UIs have lock in power? Are you intentionally ignoring the context in which I mentioned Tower?

Not to my reading! The alternative app to tower on FreeBSD would be git itself, which had a superset of features, would it not?

No, OS X has Git, that's the equivalent. I actually don't know Free BSD well enough to say for BSD, but for Linux for example I'd say it's Sourcetree or SmartGit.

Your getting hung up on the Tower example, Tower is far from the only example of OS X applications having a smoother UI than nix. I always felt it comes down to a culture issue, nix users don't mind the lack of polished GUIs if there's a command line tool (which you're so continently demonstrating)

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by mpasternacki »

gkop wrote: post #76
mpasternacki wrote: post #67

I’m author of that gist (just noticed I have some comments there I need to reply to), still running the setup, now with FreeBSD 12-CURRENT. Tl;dr it generally works, still no wi-fi support. X works fine (running with drm-next-4.7 patches to get external thunderbolt display to work; vanilla kernel works fine with built-in and DVI display, gets confused by Thunderbolt display only). Gave up on pkg because I want to con…

So to be clear, no Thunderbolt display working yet?

Not in HEAD, but https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/tree... is stable in my experience

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by seschwar »

aorth wrote: post #29
loeg wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GNU rm (coreutils) vs BSD rm.

I will never get used to the trailing slash on source arguments in BSD cp (that copies directory contents rather than the directory itself)! The first thing I do on an OS X machine is install GNU coreutils.

I'm used to that from rsync. I find it quite handy.

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by mpasternacki »

synthmeat wrote: post #72
mpasternacki wrote: post #67

I’m author of that gist (just noticed I have some comments there I need to reply to), still running the setup, now with FreeBSD 12-CURRENT. Tl;dr it generally works, still no wi-fi support. X works fine (running with drm-next-4.7 patches to get external thunderbolt display to work; vanilla kernel works fine with built-in and DVI display, gets confused by Thunderbolt display only). Gave up on pkg because I want to con…

Give https://github.com/jrmarino/synth a whirl.

Looks nice, thanks!

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by lllr_finger »

plg wrote: post #48
Ar-Curunir wrote: post #8

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I agree, I've been running Arch Linux on my MBP Retina for 2+ years now almost without problems. I bet if the OP tried Linux, they'd be absolutely fine.

how is battery life? does close-lid-to-sleep and open-lid-to-wake work?

I've been running Arch on a Dell Chromebook and battery life and sleep/wake are essentially the same as with ChromeOS from what I've seen so far. Awesome experience.

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by gurkendoktor »

BoorishBears wrote: post #81
duaneb wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to my reading! The alternative app to tower on FreeBSD would be git itself, which had a superset of features, would it not?

No, OS X has Git, that's the equivalent. I actually don't know Free BSD well enough to say for BSD, but for Linux for example I'd say it's Sourcetree or SmartGit. Your getting hung up on the Tower example, Tower is far from the only example of OS X applications having a smoother UI than nix. I always felt it comes down to a culture issue, nix users don't mind the lack of polished GUIs if there's a command line tool (…

I had always assumed that SourceTree was a portable Qt app (it looks like it, doesn't it?), but it's only available on macOS and Windows.

Tower and GitUp are a huge lock-in into macOS for me. Tower for line-by-line staging/discarding, GitUp for minor history fix-ups (editing a commit message without remembering the CLI command, etc.).

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by iamthad »

gurkendoktor wrote: post #87
BoorishBears wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, OS X has Git, that's the equivalent. I actually don't know Free BSD well enough to say for BSD, but for Linux for example I'd say it's Sourcetree or SmartGit. Your getting hung up on the Tower example, Tower is far from the only example of OS X applications having a smoother UI than nix. I always felt it comes down to a culture issue, nix users don't mind the lack of polished GUIs if there's a command line tool (…

I had always assumed that SourceTree was a portable Qt app (it looks like it, doesn't it?), but it's only available on macOS and Windows. Tower and GitUp are a huge lock-in into macOS for me. Tower for line-by-line staging/discarding, GitUp for minor history fix-ups (editing a commit message without remembering the CLI command, etc.).

For what it's worth, git add, git checkout, and git reset all take the -p (or --patch) option, which allows selection of sub-sections of files to stage, discard, or unstage, respectively.

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by loeg »

seschwar wrote: post #83
aorth wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will never get used to the trailing slash on source arguments in BSD cp (that copies directory contents rather than the directory itself)! The first thing I do on an OS X machine is install GNU coreutils.

I'm used to that from rsync. I find it quite handy.

This may be why I never found rsync comfortable.

Re: FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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Post by kevans91 »

enzolovesbacon wrote: post #53

I'm periodically installing FreeBSD on my ThinkPad T400 to see how it's performing with Chromium. It's the only application I use extensively, and the only one that performs really bad with FreeBSD (and OpenBSD also), which prevents me from switching from Fedora. Is there any magic I'm missing, aside from the shared memory support?

FWIW- Chromium was realllly unstable until the recent 52 -> 54 update that took place on the 22nd. Since then, it seems to be a lot more stable and performs better (on my crap hardware). I would definitely give it another shot.
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