In last month, I began experimenting with FreeBSD after watching several of their engineering workgroup calls on YouTube. The team appeared genuinely committed to improving laptop support. This is a notoriously difficult challenge. Despite decades of effort, Linux has still not achieved the long-predicted “Year of the Linux Desktop” (a meme that resurfaces predictably every year, even after more than 15 years of personal use on my part). The closest the Linux desktop market share has ever come to reaching 5 % in recent times has been driven by the Steam Deck and, ironically, by Microsoft.