<story><title>FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad</title><url>https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/t480-freebsd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gen3</author><text>Would this be considered the standard amount of things someone would need to work out to get a bsd laptop up and useable?(or are there more preconfigured images?) Are Thinkpads best for support?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simcop2387</author><text>Can&amp;#x27;t say anything about support, but the x11 settings for hidpi and all that are all because of his choice of window manager.  i3 is a very hands off, only manages windows kind of thing.  Using a full desktop environment will make forgoing all the editing of files.&lt;p&gt;The rest seems to be normal bsd setup stuff, but I know little of that beyond setting up a few virtual machines to test things</text></comment>
<story><title>FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad</title><url>https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/t480-freebsd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gen3</author><text>Would this be considered the standard amount of things someone would need to work out to get a bsd laptop up and useable?(or are there more preconfigured images?) Are Thinkpads best for support?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zenlot</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using FreeBSD since version 4.3 on and off. Most of the time I&amp;#x27;ve used it with variants of ThinkPads, recent ones were T530i and E480. The longest period I&amp;#x27;ve spent as my main OS was long time ago on Sony Vaio VGN-FS550. In a sense it has improved a lot, but also managed to remain complicated for someone who just want to test things without prior knowledge. But yes, this is typical amount of things you need to undergo when starting with FreeBSD. And it remained pretty much the same for the past 19 years. I&amp;#x27;ve switched to Linux as my main OS, just because I wanted things to work out of the box.</text></comment>