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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The comments on this article might lead to good info.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-FreeBSD-2021

I expect a lot is possible if Wine and good Vulkan drivers are available.

This guy shows how to get Steam up and running:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpI7SU921A

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup, I used to use FreeBSD and it worked okay. When I used it, the Nvidia drivers were better than AMD, but I don't know if the FOSS AMD drivers have been ported to FreeBSD.