I think the most complex part of a desktop linux install is the partitioning, but sane defaults are handed to you on most installers, so I'm curious about the failures and what induced them.

As for the whole wifi thing... Yeah man, FreeBSD isn't ready for vast majority of people, even linux veterans. I know getting the manpower to write those drivers isn't always possible, but we're talking years of this being ignored. Which has led to solutions like yours.

Something trivial to us, is not for others. It's pretty insane to even think that is a supported solution to that problem.

It's just `pkg install wifibox` ... The only dependencies are bhyve and socat.

It is actually a very simple and elegant solution to an horrible problem.