Re: [LDWG] New Install on Dell Latitude 7490

In reply to: Brendan Leber : "[LDWG] New Install on Dell Latitude 7490"
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From: Dudley Innocent <dudleyi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 23:43:17 UTC

If you run into bugs or quirks with base or the documentation, 
bugs.freebsd.org and the documentation mailing list, 
https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-doc, probably suffice.

Otherwise, dive in!

- D

On 3/27/25 06:07, Brendan Leber wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Thanks to winning a drawing a work I have a Dell Latitude 7490 that I 
> want to use for my daily driver with FreeBSD.  I'm new to FreeBSD but 
> have plenty of experience working as a developer on Debian systems.  I 
> was successfully able to install 14.2-RELEASE and have wifi working 
> without any issues.  I see from the "Laptop Support and Usability 
> Project" that Wayland and KDE with Wayland is the preferred desktop 
> environment, but before I start reading that chapter of the handbook 
> and following along I wanted to ask if there is any information I can 
> capture that would help with the project?
>
> At this point there is nothing critical on the laptop so testing isn't 
> a problem as it is easy to install from scratch.
>
> Thanks,
> B!
>