Hello based people of lemmy,
I have recently started trying out BSDs as an alternative to Linux and found out that Spotify isn’t supported. Before you say try it in a browser this doesn’t work as spotify has DRM that doesn’t work on BSD OSes.
Now is there a way to stream music similar to Spotify? I know there is a downloader program available.
Furthermore do you know what self-hosted options are available? I already have a basic *arr stack and am always up for convoluted server and Linux hijinks.
I am sure they have muddied the waters with some garbage “user-friendly” configuration.
Honestly I haven’t found them to do anything daft yet. From my understanding FreeBSD is a pain to configure for desktop usage as it’s designed more for servers. Tell me if I am wrong.
Yes, you are wrong. FreeBSD is a general purpose operating system. You install what you need and configure what you need. GhostBSD and its ilk are for weenies.
Now you sound like an Arch kid. I say this as someone who used to be an Arch kid sort of.
I use Arch too. I’ve been using FreeBSD for 21 years, though. I run everything on it, even this Lemmy instance.
Okay I will probably move to FreeBSD proper eventually. I am still new to this though and likely to break things. I don’t want to have to go through a whole process every time I mess up to get a usable working system until I actually know what I am doing.
Install on ZFS root, snapshot a known good, then you can rollback as you wish.
Yeah this might be the way. I have created a FreeBSD current USB drive to install off of. I am thinking the newer slightly less stable version has less GPU issues as that seems to be the main factor.
That almost certainly untrue. Do not run CURRENT, it has
INVARIANTSandWITNESSenabled that will make it painfully slow.