My ThinkPad T480 now runs FreeBSD 15.1 as a complete desktop: Xfce 4.20, 5 GHz Wi-Fi, verified VA-API video decoding in Firefox and Chromium, Bluetooth audio, a webcam that handles Zoom calls in Firefox, a smart-card-backed SSH and Git workflow, and coding agents. Here are the packages, configuration, tests and machine-specific traps behind a laptop I can simply use.