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I guess WPA3 and bluetooth are not "core systems" either.


For people wanting to use BSD in desktop systems, they arguably are. For those like me who primarily use it in servers, they’re not.


Good point. I use FreeBSD on a daily driver NUC and I have no need for neither WiFi not Bluetooth. But I know I'm an outlier.

Support on that front could definitely use some improvement. I had to turn off Bluetooth in the bios because it made my box hang on startup. Never bothered to find out why because I don't need it anyway.


IMHO, bluetooth is definitely not a core system for a desktop/laptop. Experience has taught me the bluetooth rune is an ancient symbol that means probably might work. There's no reason I would purchase a bluetooth perhipheral when a wired equivalent is available.

For a mobile phone, it's probably a core system; connecting to a car radio is an important use case. If wired android auto/car play includes hands free calling over usb, then that could be enough, and maybe bluetooth can be relegated to my history bin; but a lot of people like wireless earbuds.

As for WPA3, I dunno? Afaik, I've never needed that either, but my wifi is a bit old.




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