Which BSD OS has best support for my laptop? reddit / BSD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jf4488 · 2021-01-09 12:02 It has AMD Ryzen 3550H with Vega 8 and RX560X. It also has rtl8821ce. How well would it work on GhostBSD/OpenBSD? I saw in a forum post that freeBSD doesn't have rtl8821ce support :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- edo-lag · 2021-01-09 13:22 You may try searching your components or your laptop [here](http://bsd-hardware.info/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jf4488 · 2021-01-09 13:33 Thank you :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SubgeniusSlacker · 2021-01-09 16:36 That WiFi adapter might give you issues in any non-Windows OS. It may be possible to swap it out for a better supported Intel card. As for the AMD APU, I know OpenBSD has issues with the amdgpu driver and recent hardware like yours. I don’t know about the other BSDs. You may have better luck with a laptop-focused Linux distro like Pop!_OS, I’ve found it to be the most stable and compatible FOSS on laptops made in the last year. I’m not big on running systemd but it gets the job done. I’m looking forward to OpenBSD 6.9 to better support my laptop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gehenna-jezebel · 2021-01-09 18:20 Freebsd would be my first choice, there may be issues with the wifi card, but there are workarounds to use windows drivers if so. As bad as hardware support is sometimes, the benefits of freebsd have had me hacking, debugging, and just straight up using older hardware. I absolutely love zfs boot environments and jails, bhyve serves its purpose, and i am fond of beastie :) If you got a few spare usb drives, try running free, net, and open BSD live and cross your fingers. Wifi worked out of the box for me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jf4488 · 2021-01-09 18:24 I tried freeBSD on vbox and liked it. I'm still setting it up tho ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gehenna-jezebel · 2021-01-09 18:31 Yeah, its a little bit of work for sure, but look at that bootloader splash! The coolest thimg for me is being able to run linux and windows binaries on my bsd system, it really feels like im getting away with something... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jf4488 · 2021-01-09 18:33 When I set it up I really want to try out Wine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gehenna-jezebel · 2021-01-09 18:49 Until you find open source counterparts lol. But yeah, wines been hit or miss for me but win10 in bhyve handles a word doc just fine for me. The linux emulation layer is really dope too, id run it in a jail though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jf4488 · 2021-01-09 23:06 Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- linuxbuild · 2021-01-20 12:45 See [https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/hrhfe3/how\_it\_fits\_b sd/](https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/hrhfe3/how_it_fits_bsd/ )