...and NetBSD was the neglected, unmaintained one.
I was gifted a newer and more powerful AMD64 machine with a AMD Ryzen 5 and a Nvidia GTX 1070. The Internet claims that FreeBSD has support for Nvidia but NetBSD doesn't, only simple framebuffer. I installed NetBSD on it, just running the installer and taking mostly defaults, and all I had to do was add "xdm=YES" and "xfs=YES" to /etc/rc.conf and I get a usable but ugly Xserver.
But I want something prettier, so I try FreeBSD. It installs quickly and easily, but then I have to install X11 separately. So far I've installed 397 packages including nvidia-driver, nvidia-kmod, wayland, and xfce, and the best I get is an 849 line Xorg.0.log with 14 errors including "Segmentation fault at address 0x80000001000".
Am I doing something wrong? I run a headless fileserver on FreeBSD with no trouble. I ran FreeBSD as my daily driver from 2.0.0 through 4.6, then switched back to NetBSD for workstations. I'm not a noob.
