Well, I cheated on BSD. Really…. Someone told me that if I really want the best of BSD, but with support for modern hardware, I should try Gentoo. There, he said, I would find everything I like about FreeBSD and it would be easy to setup and to avoid Poettering-software.
So I tried it. Setting up is a bit more complicated, since there is no installer at all, but yes, all of my hardware is supported and even sound over HDMI works. But setting up the LVM with a RAID 5 consisting of three NVMEs with full disk encryption, drove me nuts.
I will definitely go back to FreeBSD again. Nice excursion, but nothing for me… But from time to time it’s good to see what’s happening on the other side.
#FreeBSD
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