FreeBSD works perfectly on intel MacBooks if you've got one laying around: https://joshua.hu/FreeBSD-on-MacbookPro-114-A1398

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bxparks an hour ago | parent | next [-]

From the link: "Note: The inbuilt WiFi chip is not natively supported by FreeBSD, so you will need to (temporarily) use a USB WiFi or Ethernet dongle, or (as I will explain) copy some files from a different system to the Macbook. You could also just transplant a different chip into the system."

You say "works perfectly". I do not think it means what you think it means.

To be fair, Linux also has trouble with the Broadcom chip, the driver needs to be installed as a separate step on most distros.

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wolvoleo an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Broadcom

Here's the real problem.

It's sad how a company that spawned the raspberry pi in earlier times got so evil so quickly.

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shrubble 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

Every Raspberry Pi ships with a closed source OS, ThreadX, that boots Linux, BTW.

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skydhash an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the intersection between BSD users and people who will buy a dongle or use Ethernet is a perfect circle.

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whalesalad 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Probably not T2 MacBooks though.