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So, I don't remember why I did it, but I reinstalled FreeBSD on the laptop it was already installed on. This time, however, I used version 12-CURRENT instead of 11.2-RELEASE
I don't remember why.....but this time everything was a bit more streamlined and that may just be me having literally just installing it the day before and knowing what to do.
Also somehow I now have an emoji picker tied to a keyboard shortcut and like this is great and I'm not asking questions :3
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I also downloaded a USB image for DragonflyBSD last night (stock piling up on those sweet sweet install discs).
For shits and giggles I booted it up on my chromebook (Acer c720) and the keyboard worked(?!) but it didn't detect my wireless card....so.....that's something 🤷
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I may spend some time today trying to figure out why it didn't detect my wireless card and if I can figure it out I may do another BSD install :D
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oh wow this install is going great really happy with how everything is going send too- *crashes into kernel debugger*
....ha....hmmmm..... 
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me: "oh I know enough about linux. i should look in to other unix-like operating systems"
also me: "FUCK. WHATS A KERNEL UM. DID........but.....why would they include bugs in it? Why uhg why do crashes?? *sobs*"
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hmmmm
just installed a program I use frequently on linux into freebsd
on first run it fucked up my X server a bit, but restarting the program fixed it.
on the second run it made noise where on linux it was silent. i think it was supposed to make noise all along, but for some reason didn't on linux.
wtf
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one weird (I'm assuming it's weird?) issue I'm having is that when I open a new terminal instance it drops me in / instead of my home dir
it's not a big deal, just weird 🤷
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@rechner it's set to /home/zac but /home is a symlink to /usr/home
think that could be the issue? cd $HOME works properly and so does cd /home/zac
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@zac I'm not sure about fish, but if you add -x (or add `set -x` to /etc/profile) your login shell should become very verbose, might shed some light on that problem.
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@rechner I was able to fix it!
I put
export HOME=/home/zac
and then it worked!
Thank you very much for helping! :3
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@zac Indirectly, perhaps. Assuming fish is your shell as given in /etc/passwd, I'd guess there's a relevant difference between the shell's login-time-only .profile script and its run-on-every-new-shell $ENV or .shrc script. (Or fish's equivalent scripts.)
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@arielmt just realized that my file manager also opens to /
i also just tried changing my shell to bash instead of fish and it didn't make any difference
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@zac Is bash installed? It's not the default in most BSDs, and if it is installed, it'll be /usr/local/bin/bash.
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@arielmt yeah it was installed and after I changed my shell to it it didn't change anything :/
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@zac I'm out of ideas. 
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@arielmt
it's okay!
i really appreciate you taking the time to help! :3
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@arielmt !
on a whim I added "export HOME='/home/zac'" into my .xsessionrc and now everything works?
🤷🤷🤷
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@arielmt I'm using fish because I got used to it, so it shouldn't source those files, and when I log in via the console it drops me in ~
Think it could have something to do with X?