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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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thinking back to that kernel panic I had earlier....
it's actually pretty neat that it dropped down into the debugger straightaway instead of just giving me a stack dump (i never had the kernel debug stuff installed for linux so I don't know what that would be like).
it's nice to think that "oh, if i were smarter I may be able to fix this and recover where i was", and it's even nicer to have the OS just give these tools to you so freely
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got automounting set up, a fuse exfat driver installed, and a few new commands to read up on!
today went a lot better than I anticipated it would, with regards to BSD :3
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I was playing around with the live cd of DragonflyBSD and was able to patch together how to create a wireless interface over top of the actual hardware
(took me like 4 pages and 30-45min when it was actually all on one page, that I didn't take the time to fully read 🙄 [typical])
so now I'm installing DBSD on a flashdrive to see how well it would work on this laptop before I fully commit to an install
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@zac@social.computerfox.xyz dragonfly bsd brings back so many memories... most of them good actually! also, I'm reading your logs - this has been an adventure!
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@scarly it's going decently well with DFBSD so far.
the console recognizes my keyboard, but X doesn't (nor does it recognize my trackpad)
at the very least someone made an entire page about running DFBSD on the Acer c720 chromebook, and it's helping immensely :3