Exploring NomadBSD - Desktop FreeBSD on a thumb drive
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Kernigh · 2018-08-13 04:32

Hardware support is the hard part of running BSD (unless you have a
Mac running macOS). Some devices are slow, or just don't work. This
reviewer has trouble with graphics in NomadBSD: the desktop doesn't
appear, or the mouse doesn't work, or the desktop uses 100% cpu.

Graphics is fast with OpenBSD 6.3 on my amd64 machine, but was slow
several OpenBSD versions ago. I can play YouTube videos in Firefox,
but some OpenBSD users can't. Recent work by the BSDs to improve Xorg
and drm helps my machine, but not all machines.