More comments resulting from trial and error during the upgrade to 14.3
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 05:32:34 UTC
Hi, I hope this may be useful to improve the installation experience in the future. To keep my work as safe as possible, I grabbed another drive and put it in the PC I was upgrading to see how an installation from scratch, using the 14.3 USB image would feel like. In the installation process, I had to struggle to find my WIFI SSID, because my provider uses extremely long SSIDs and the user specific part was not visible. It looks that I have at least 5 neighbours with the same provider and it was a lengthy process until I selected my own SSID. A simple remedy for that would be to have a broader dialog there, which should not be unreasonable even on 80x25 displays... Then I also saw that installing kde and sddm directly installs wayland. Good... except that I haven't found 'tweaking instructions' anywhere and currently the session ends when I close any application I have opened after starting the session. With these two 'quirks' solved, my experience would be reassuring enough to recommend trying FreeBSD to more people. /PA -- Fragen sind nicht da, um beantwortet zu werden, Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden Georg Kreisler Sagen's Paradeiser, write BE! Year 1 of the New Koprocracy