On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM Ed Maste <ema...@freebsdfoundation.org> wrote: > > The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements > project is choosing a small list of laptops and of desktop > environments that will be used as targets for our development effort. > ...
Thanks everyone for all of the feedback. One high-level comment is that our goal is to take a narrow but deep focus: we'd rather have one laptop model where all functionality works completely, than having several mostly functional models where for example one has an audio quirk with headphone switching not working and another where the special function keys don't work. I understand the feedback that we need additional models though, and there are candidates for inclusion in the supported list. Thinkpads and Dell business laptops are already in the list; a few folks mentioned HP Elitebook and it seems like a reasonable addition to the candidates. We'll probably create a tiered list, where the first tier meets the criteria mentioned (multiple developers with that model, vendor support, target 100% functionality). The second tier would not meet all of the criteria, but still has some relationship to our effort (e.g., at least one developer has the model, we know what is functional). This is the same argument for focusing on KDE to start -- we'd prefer one desktop environment where everything works, than two partially functional ones. This doesn't mean that work on GLib or other components is out of scope, just that KDE will be the environment we use to test and measure our progress.
