FreeBSD Foundation's laptop project -- supported desktop environments

[Ed Maste]

Hi KDE folks,

The FreeBSD Foundation's laptop project is choosing a small list of
laptops and of desktop environments to target for our development
effort. This means that contracted developers will be using the
laptops and environments on these lists during their work, and that
our testing will be done against these.

For the laptop list we are starting with the 13" AMD Framework laptop:
https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/supported/laptops.md

We've chosen this laptop as the initial target for a few reasons. The
Foundation has a good relationship with folks at Framework, and they
have contributed bug fixes and improvements to improve FreeBSD. See
https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/freebsd-on-framework for details.
The Foundation also has a good working relationship with AMD, in case
we need support during development. Additional laptop models will be
added over time, taking into account vendor support and community
feedback.

For the desktop environment we'll start with KDE on Wayland.
https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/supported/desktop-environment.md.
KDE on FreeBSD is popular, with an active development team.

Please let me know if you have any feedback on these two topics.

Best,
Ed