<![CDATA[Oomfies, what's more gay?]]>Oomfies, what's more gay? The winner is likely going to be my desktop OS. Others ideas are welcome, as long as it's fairly usable, open source and not Linux

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/a339e20c-dc19-4788-9ab2-c3524bb8bd0f/oomfies-what-s-more-gayRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 04:15:21 GMTFri, 17 Apr 2026 18:42:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:12:17 GMT]]>@mrmasterkeyboard @nina_kali_nina Don't know if I'd go as far as calling it based, it's a fairly basic stance. We have trans developers. They shouldn't suffer.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/netbsd/statuses/116425407717906007https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/netbsd/statuses/116425407717906007Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:12:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:41:10 GMT]]>@netbsd @nina_kali_nina Absolutely based. That's a follow and a boost upwards in the list of OSes I like.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mrmasterkeyboard/statuses/116425285325619538https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mrmasterkeyboard/statuses/116425285325619538Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:41:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:16:04 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina trans rights. :3

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/netbsd/statuses/116422119540963916https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/netbsd/statuses/116422119540963916Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:16:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:29:16 GMT]]>@joe @nina_kali_nina haiku is absolutely a queer operating system, there was even a post about it https://web.archive.org/web/20160324131651/https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/nielx/2010-04-11_haiku_has_no_future

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/atax1a/statuses/116421699630625107https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/atax1a/statuses/116421699630625107Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:29:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:27:04 GMT]]>@slava @nina_kali_nina illumOS might fit the bill too. but it sounds like the devs are pretty LLM-happy these days

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://f.duriansoftware.com/users/joe/statuses/116421690922198387https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://f.duriansoftware.com/users/joe/statuses/116421690922198387Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:27:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:24:52 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

Security is one factor. OpenBSD prides itself on it, but I wouldn't say it's particularly ahead of Linux overall in a practical, well-configured scenario. NetBSD is considerably less audited, and a C3 talk about BSD security was... scathing on it.

Software availability is another. Spent a non-trivial amount of time getting Minecraft to run on NetBSD. In general, more things will break, and there will be fewer documented fixes - unless you only use FOSS, and even then.

I recall OpenBSD having some performance issues at the time when running IntelliJ, which I think were fixable with enough tuning but I never got that far.

But I welcome trying it - it was certainly a valuable and fun experience until I realized more things work out of the box on Linux.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mk.asie.pl/notes/al6v3d8hebhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mk.asie.pl/notes/al6v3d8hebFri, 17 Apr 2026 19:24:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:24:27 GMT]]>@joe @nina_kali_nina No love for GNU/Hurd?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/slava/statuses/116421680665065537https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/slava/statuses/116421680665065537Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:24:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:20:23 GMT]]>@asie @joe why not? Any particular pains?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421664701514123https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421664701514123Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:20:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:20:22 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina EVERYONE IS GAY! πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸŽ‰

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/pawv/statuses/116421664614663458https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/pawv/statuses/116421664614663458Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:20:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:18:38 GMT]]>@mhd @drj I'd say Solaris on SPARC is very gay in 2026, even if it wasn't sexy in 2006

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421657805634586https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421657805634586Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:18:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:18:23 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @joe@f.duriansoftware.com i would not really use either on a primary machine. i've tried to daily drive both at a more rebellious point in my life

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mk.asie.pl/notes/al6uv1hn8ehttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mk.asie.pl/notes/al6uv1hn8eFri, 17 Apr 2026 19:18:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:17:13 GMT]]>@drj @nina_kali_nina I don't know how to grade this (is it the SysV/BSD split?), but I'd bet good money on Solaris being less gay, just by being owned by Oracle.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tilde.zone/users/mhd/statuses/116421652209118721https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tilde.zone/users/mhd/statuses/116421652209118721Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:17:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:16:34 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina @WiteWulf Haiku is apparently, very anti-slop.

They recently just made a change on their forum which moves slops to the same category as "Proprietary" and outright banning slop-generated content on their forum.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/ap/users/116292935905690473/statuses/116421649655588434https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/ap/users/116292935905690473/statuses/116421649655588434Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:16:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:13:44 GMT]]>@pak0st @nuttx @redox I have KolibriOS on my old desktop, probably one of the most feature-complete installs. But it's very insecure and unstable. Nuttx and Redox are interesting, and so is Genode. But I don't feel like I could daily drive them...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421638536919610https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421638536919610Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:13:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:09:42 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina Oh, and every release has a hilarious theme song

I will admit I listened to them unironically when I was in high school, despite not ever having used BSD. I was a big fan of Systemagic and "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/Canageek/statuses/116421622642396911https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/Canageek/statuses/116421622642396911Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:09:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:08:13 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina @nuttx, kolibrios, @redox - plenty of choices to try after BSD flavors πŸ™‚

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/pak0st/statuses/116421616823499944https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/pak0st/statuses/116421616823499944Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:08:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:07:58 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina Yeah, I got that vibe too. OpenBSD is just out there doing their own thing it seems. Mostly feels like the focus is security, keeping X alive, and OpenSSH. Not bad aims, but not entirely dialed in either. It does have a community of users who, at least when I was dipping my toes into the water, who seemed to get it. But they're a lot of opsec folks, it's their job and they think about it a lot.

Meanwhile NetBSD feels like a bunch of deranged internet nuts trying to cram their OS into every known tool in existence. Much more my speed in some ways, but less desktop support. Not a dealbreaker, just needs more focus time.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/abmurrow/statuses/116421615819722344https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/abmurrow/statuses/116421615819722344Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:07:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:07:32 GMT]]>@pawv I think it just means they're almost equally queer

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421614157049586https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421614157049586Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:07:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:06:59 GMT]]>@bytex64 indeed it is, and shovel lovers curious about poetry, as well as shovel-curious poetry lovers, will be able to answer. πŸ˜‰ which is exactly my point

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421612009281677https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421612009281677Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:06:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:05:30 GMT]]>@m3t00 @Kierkegaanks no thanks, I'm on it and I hate it. My root account isn't root and I can't even install an alternative OS

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421606173975225https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421606173975225Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:05:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:04:37 GMT]]>@WiteWulf they still don't have an anti-AI statement. 😞

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421602658639866https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421602658639866Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:04:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:01:54 GMT]]>@nina_kali_nina ah yeah it's probably not good for that. though it is cool that the base OS and apps are immutably mounted directly from the set of packages you have installed, which is something you need to do extra work to get with any *BSD (though of course when you're always root in Haiku, it's still not hard to simply install or alter packages to indirectly alter the OS)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://f.duriansoftware.com/users/joe/statuses/116421592018566229https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://f.duriansoftware.com/users/joe/statuses/116421592018566229Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:01:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:01:45 GMT]]>@abmurrow I have an OpenBSD on my $50 Chromebook and it's pretty nice. But I'm a bit conflicted on their apolitical-ness stance. NetBSD in this aspect seems to be far more political

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421591394111248https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/nina_kali_nina/statuses/116421591394111248Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:01:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oomfies, what's more gay? on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:01:21 GMT]]>@WiteWulf @nina_kali_nina wasn't FreeNAS based on FreeBSD - that was rock solid to me for a good decade

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://digitalcourage.social/users/axel_hartmann/statuses/116421589826401531https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://digitalcourage.social/users/axel_hartmann/statuses/116421589826401531Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:01:21 GMT