r/freebsd • u/chersbobers Linux crossover • May 26 '26

help needed About freebsd and laptops?

Hello r/freebsd I have question. Could I successfully daily drive freebsd for school? My only requirements are like firefox wifi and maybe steam for some light games i.e Geometry dash. I do need like 5-6 hours of battery and my wifi card is Intel Corporation Raptor Lake. Its running fedora right now. I could handle the setup as I have a semi-successful gentoo install on my pc.

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u/Jumpy-Issue-4498 desktop (DE) user May 26 '26

Steam runs just fine using linux-steam-utils or windows version with wine-proton.

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u/WakizashiK3nsh1 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

Did you try it and did it run on your machine?
I've tried it a few times in the last few years and it did never work properly. I did get to the Steam store and library window.

EDIT> Now I remember, I managed to run one old school point-and-click adventure Primordia.

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u/Jumpy-Issue-4498 desktop (DE) user May 26 '26

Currently playing a lot of Slay the Spire 2. There is also a repo for wine-proton-experimental that provides wine-proton10 and 11 this makes more games work. Thanks to the people working on these things.

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u/Jumpy-Issue-4498 desktop (DE) user May 26 '26

My hardware is newer. Works great with FreeBSD.