So i had a mission, getting WoW and Hyprland to work on FreeBSD, and i did :D

Hi All,

I've been developing this Wayland compositor and integrated desktop environment written in Zig (and some C).

It's currently Linux only, but I've been considering a FreeBSD port and wanted to gauge whether there's any interest before committing to it.

It's a bit different from most Wayland desktops as the compositor and desktop shell run in a single process, with a custom scene graph (still need wlroots but own scene graph), shared GLES2 rendering pipeline, configurable window decorations (including custom shapes), glass effects, and a fairly extensive theming system - see examples above.

My initial goal would simply be to get the compositor and shell running natively on FreeBSD, then gradually bring over the remaining functionality, although systemd services tab would probably be omitted or replaced.

I'm curious whether anyone here would be interested in using something like this, or perhaps helping test an early port.

The project is open source and developed with AI assistance, which I'm happy to be transparent about. GitHub: https://github.com/oxydizer/rediwm

Would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks!

I recently moved my Freebsd root volume to a different drive and wanted to keep the same EFI partition that I had been using. My efibootmgr entry for the system didn't change but the FreeBSD boot loader can't find the ZFS pool. I've tried messing with the currdev and vfs.root.mountfrom settings from the loader and also from the loader.env and from boot/loader.conf files but haven't had any luck so far.

Is this supported? Any gotchas that I need to be aware of?

have no idea why its doing this. my window manager is unusable and i cany remove the thing from the autostart file that breaks it bc of this

What are the practical benefits of switching from Fedora to FreeBSD?
I'm curious why i should choose BSD over Fedora?

Would be used for gaming and YT videos mostly

So you guys told me, FreeBSD is great for hosting a server, why is it better than say Debian Linux? ty guys