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pbohun ◴[25 Jun 25 20:24 UTC] No.44381507[source]▶
It may not look like it now, but I think Linux is not viable long-term as a desktop OS. There should probably be an effort to specifically make FreeBSD a gaming-ready OS. We know it can be done since Sony already did it for PlayStation (but that's proprietary).

FreeBSD also needs an OS-level graphics/window API just like Windows. Linux is still trying to pretend like its the 60s where text was the only way to interact with a computer. Graphics is integral to all mobile and desktop computing and should be part of the operating system.

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1. heavyset_go ◴[25 Jun 25 20:46 UTC] No.44381653[source]▶
> There should probably be an effort to specifically make FreeBSD a gaming-ready OS

This will only happen for consoles as it is the case already, due to the driver issue.

It's one thing to create a specialized Linux distribution, it's another thing to try to support thousands of SKUs found in common desktops, roll your own modern WiFi stack, etc.